Another nail in the coffin

[MikeA57]

They're just gonna keep on keepin on aren't they?

Anger over gov't plans to dictate child farm labor (OneNewsNow.com)

[bcp]

From:
WHD News Release: US Labor Department proposes updates to child labor regulations [08/31/2011]

"The FLSA also provides a complete exemption for youths employed on farms owned by their parents."

[johnrex62]

No better way to promote government as a way of life that to prohibit learning to work and feed yourself.

[newbury]

Yeah
And the Obama administration steps in and puts a halt to it.

The U.S. Department of Labor today issued the following statement regarding the withdrawal of a proposed rule dealing with children who work in agricultural vocations:
å…¸he Obama administration is firmly committed to promoting family farmers and respecting the rural way of life, especially the role that parents and other family members play in passing those traditions down through the generations. The Obama administration is also deeply committed to listening and responding to what Americans across the country have to say about proposed rules and regulations.

Department of Labor withdrawls rule dealing with children working on farms | Ohio Ag Net | Ohio's Country Journal

[seymojo536]

Same thing happened when some government yahoo decided that muscovy ducks needed to be regulated. Took a tidal wave of outraged citizens to get them to back down. At least the process worked. My grandpa always said if farmers ever formed a union, they could control the country.

[sfloggie]

From what I read the Prohibition for children to work on their farms was withdrawn but not the 4-H/FHA revocations course requirement. Hopefully, I am wrong.

"revoke the governmentç—´ approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course."

[czechsonofagun]

The same story the world over. They think if they create enough laws and regulations they wll create the heaven. Stupid bozos

[turnkey4099]

The entire thing was a tempest in a teapot and totally distorted from the git-go. It did NOT prohibit kids from working on family farms, FHA, etc.

All i did was prohibit PAID work off the family farm. It was basic child labor law and I do not understand why it was stopped.

Yes, back when I was a kid, we went to work around and on farm machinery from the time we were old enough to be of at least some use. I was on a tractor at 12, first paid job was 10hr/6day/wk at a booming $42 a week plus found and glad to have it.

No other industry is allowed to hire 16 YOA kids, why should farmers?

Harry K

[aczlan]

The entire thing was a tempest in a teapot and totally distorted from the git-go. It did NOT prohibit kids from working on family farms, FHA, etc.
All i did was prohibit PAID work off the family farm. It was basic child labor law and I do not understand why it was stopped.

Because its definition of a family farm was one that your parents were the sole owners.
If your dad and 3 uncles jointly owned/ran "grandpas farm" it would have prohibited them from working there.
In our case, my inlaws have a farm and we do hay. If we are short on people, they hire my siblings (most of whom are still in their teens) when it comes time to stack the hay in the wagons and load it into the barn. That wouldn't have been allowed under the purposed rules.

Aaron Z

[Ridgewalker]

From the time I could lift a hay bail I worked on my uncle's farm in the summer hauling hay. I remember being proud to be the guy on the wagon...it was like a promotion to get out of the hay barn. (We hitched the wagon to the baler which was pulled by the tractor.)

Those were great days, make a few bucks and then head to the river that ran thru the property to cool off afterward. His MIL would have a big dinner waiting on us...fun times.

That's why this law needed to die...