Wage & Hour Division
The Pump Handle
Tag archives for Wage & Hour Division
Disappointment and outrage: Advocates react to withdrawal of safety rules for child farmworkers
Posted by The Pump Handle on May 10, 2012
(0)
Advocates react to the Obama administration’s unexpected decision to drop proposed revisions to rules on children working in agriculture — an industry with a high fatality rate for young workers.
Child agricultural labor rule: Not just dead, but erased from DOL’s website
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on May 4, 2012 It was bad enough when the Obama Administration withdrew a proposed rule to protect the most vulnerable workers in our country—children employed on farms—-but somebody told the Labor Department staff to delete all evidence of the proposal from the Labor Department’s website.