Good thing the nanny state is here to protect us. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Rural kids, parents angry about Labor Dept. rule banning farm chores > > > A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing > farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of > Congress. But now its attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. > > The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule > that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, > prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families > land. > > Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work in the storing, > marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials. > > Prohibited places of employment, a Department press release read, would > include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, > livestock exchanges and livestock auctions. > > The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda > Solis, would also revoke the governments approval of safety training and > certification taught by independent groups like 4-H andFFA, replacing them > instead with a 90-hour federal government training course. > > .. > Boswell chafed at the governments rationale for bringing farms strictly > into line with child-labor laws. > > They have said the number of injuries are higher for children than in > non-ag industries, she said. But everyone in agriculture, Boswell > insisted, makes sure youth work in tasks that are age-appropriate. > > The safety training requirements strike many in agriculture as particularly > strange, given an injury rate among young people that is already falling > rapidly. > > According to a United States Department of Agriculture study, farm > accidents among youth fell nearly 40 percent between 2001 and 2009, to 7.2 > injuries per 1,000 farms. > > Clark said the regulations are vague and meddlesome. > > Its so far-reaching, he exclaimed, kids would be prohibited from > working on anything power take-off driven, and anything with a > work-height over six feet which would include the tractor Im on now. > > The way the regulations are currently written, he added, would prohibit > children under 16 from using battery powered screwdrivers, since their > motors, like those of a tractor, are defined as power take-off driven. > > And jobs that could inflict pain on an animal would also be off-limits > for kids. But inflicting pain, Clark explained, is left undefined: If it > included something like putting a halter on a steer, 4-H and FFA animal > shows would be a thing of the past. > > > http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural-kids-parents-angry-about-labor-dept-rule-banning-farm-chores/2/ > > J > > - > > Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. > - Henry Kissinger > > Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, > go out and buy some > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:350243 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
