Labor Department to re-propose parental exemption portion of agricultural child labor regulations
Story Date: 2/6/2012

 
Source: Sarah Gonzalez, AGRI-PULSE, 2/1/12

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division today announced that it will re-propose the portion of its regulation on child labor in agriculture interpreting the "parental exemption.” The public, especially farming and ranching communities, criticized the farm labor rules proposed in Sept. 2011 that would have prevented many young people from working on family farms.

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