Nobody saw this coming, huh (Part Something)

Not from people who don’t know farm work from … Well, any kind of work except governmental, community organizing, college jobs and lawyering.

Department of Labor proposals will “prohibit farmworkers under age 16 from participating in the cultivation, harvesting and curing of tobacco. And it would prohibit youth in both agricultural and nonagricultural employment from using electronic, including communication, devices while operating power-driven equipment.

“The department also is proposing to create a new nonagricultural hazardous occupations order that would prevent children under 18 from being employed in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials. Prohibited places of employment would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.

“Additionally, the proposal would prohibit farmworkers under 16 from operating almost all power-driven equipment.”

Idiocy aside, how to balance prohibition “using electronic, including communication, devices while operating power-driven equipment” while prohibiting “farmworkers under 16 from operating almost all power-driven equipment.”



(The release was August 2011, but we can’t keep up with everything.)