pbwalker wrote:This has nothing to do with chores... it has to do with child labor. Children who work chores on family farms and ranches are exempt.
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"Question: How does the proposed rule affect what children can do on their parent’s farm?
The proposed rule in no way compromises the statutory child labor parental exemptions involving children working on farms owned or operated by their parents. The statutory exemptions do not apply to workers who are not the children of the owner or operator of the farm. A parent of a hired farm worker cannot waive the child labor provisions for his or her own child when the child is employed on a farm not owned or operated by his or her parent."
/just saying'
Well, I personally don't know, and I've only the article and the link you provided to go by. But in addition to what Keith says, how is it any of the government's business if I want my children to work on their Aunt's farm, or their Grandparent's farm? So if their Uncle dies, my kids can't go help their Aunt on the farm, or help Grandma after Grandpa breaks his leg? Conceptually, that serves the leftist agenda to weaken the family structure. This quote from Senator Moran hits on what this proposal does: it regulates family relationships and prohibits certain choices parents may make for their children. As Senator Moran suggests, if they can regulate these choices, they why can't the government prohibit parents from making children help around the house, or requiring a child to work to earn something they want....like a computer or a bicycle?
“And in my view, if the federal government can regulate the kind of relationship between parents and their children on their own family’s farm, there is almost nothing off-limits in which we see the federal government intruding in a way of life.”
and this quote about what has already been happening.....
She claimed farmers could soon find The Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division inspectors on their land, citing them for violations.
“In the last three years that division has grown 30 to 40 percent,” Boswell said. Some Farm Bureau members, she added, have had inspectors on their land checking on conditions for migrant workers, only to be cited for allowing their own children to perform chores that the Labor Department didn’t think were age-appropriate.
The US Dept. of Labor says this:
Under the Obama Administration, WHD has hired more than 300 new investigators and systematically expanded its enforcement and compliance assistance programs in agriculture to continually increase visibility in the agriculture industry in an effort to increase awareness of and compliance with the laws applicable to the industry.
That seems to support the claim made in the article about inspectors citing farmers. And of course, this is Obama's Labor Dept., as the website makes clear, so why should we believe everything they say?
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