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Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis
If it wasn't bad enough to implement NAIS on the non-corporate farm, now our illustrious prez want's to outlaw chores around the family farm. That's right - asking your kid to help out around the farm will now violate child labor laws:
http://nation.foxnews.com/department...ng-farm-chores
Should soon all be for naught once Monsanto figures out how to genetically mutate dairy cows to milk themselves. Mmmm Mmmm Good!! |
It's so funny that you brought this up- a commenter on one of the political blogs i frequent mentioned this today as the latest Republican lie that is being pushed, and not an hour later, here is a post on DT about it!
Let's see what the actual text of the actual law says-
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (Department or DOL) is proposing to
revise the child labor regulations issued pursuant to the Fair Labor
Standards Act, which set forth the criteria for the permissible
employment of minors under 18 years of age in agricultural and
nonagricultural occupations. The proposal would implement specific
recommendations made by the National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, increase parity between the agricultural and
nonagricultural child labor provisions, and also address other areas
that can be improved, which were identified by the Department's own
enforcement actions.
The proposed agricultural revisions would impact
only hired farm workers and in no way compromise the statutory child
labor parental exemption involving children working on farms owned or
operated by their parents.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documen...2011-0001-0001
Wow, right there in the first paragraph- a crystal clear statement that not a thing changes for kids working on their own family's farm!
So no, our "illustrious prez" does not want to outlaw chores on the family farm. The GOP just figures their willing minions will swallow whatever bs they tell them to, even when it's directly contradicted in the first paragraph of the law's actual text.