From today's Daily Caller-
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.
Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed
the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family
members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason
for withdrawing the rule.
“The decision to withdraw this rule — including provisions to define
the ‘parental exemption’ — was made in response to thousands of comments
expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small
family-owned farms,” the Department said in a press release Thursday
evening. “To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the
duration of the Obama administration.”
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