Important Information sent to me by Email:
Youth under 16 would not be allowed to do agricultural work on a farm that is not owned 100% by parents. The farm can NOT be in trust, LLC or partnership with others than just parent OR NO PARENTAL EXEMPTION. Youth could NOT work at Grandparents or other extended family’s farms or neighbors doing agricultural and working with livestock. Interesting thing, the definition of work is not a job, has nothing to do with getting paid, it is working, providing labor.
Youth under 16 could NOT work at dairy farms milking cows w/ powered milking machines, livestock auctions, livestock exchanges, feed lots, feed yards, stockyards. Youth could NOT work with animals doing basic animal husbandry practices like branding, banding, breeding, dehorning, vaccinating, castrating, treating sick/injured animals, poultry catching/cooping, herding animals in confined spaces such as feed lots or corrals or on horseback (can NOT herd on horseback because of how dangerous cows and horses are) or herd animals on motorized vehicles such as trucks or terrain vehicles, work on elevated farm structures including silos, grain bins, windmills, work inside a fruit, forage, or grain storage, manure pit, harvesting, baling/stacking hay, NO powered farm equipment…including lawn mowers, prohibit driving of ALL motor vehicles and off-road vehicles. Also Youth could NOT work on a farm in a yard, pen or stall occupied by an intact (not castrated) male equine, porcine, bovine, or bison older than 6 months, a sow w/ suckling pigs, or cow w/ new born calf.
“The DOL assumes that youth under age 16 lack the ‘cognitive ability’ to herd animals on horseback, use battery-powered drills, put hay bales on a bale elevator or use any equipment except if powered by hand or foot.”
Youth also would not be allowed, under the proposal, to cut and separate cattle from a herd if riding a horse. "No youth development data exists to suggest youth younger than 16 years have the cognitive ability to handle this responsibility," the proposal suggests.
Submit comments here By Nov 30th : http://1.usa.gov/n4BiLB. Refer to RIN 1235-AA06 (what this legislation is called) in your comments. You only have 20 mins to write comments and only 200 characters. Best to download letters to comment area because NO LIMIT on words downloaded letters. (Most people have a couple sentences. One guy had 18 pages!) People need to share their stories of working with agriculture, livestock, ranching, farming so government has a better idea how absurd some of these new laws would be!
Here are articles about the new regulations:
(great article with other great links below talking about child labor )
(talked w/ Shannon Latham via email. She has lots of knowledge and info!!)
(horse organizations concerns about regulalations
(visually compares/contrasts current and new proposals to legistation)
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