The federal laws would still apply. I’m assuming the state laws are either old or in place for when the feds get rid of child labor laws. Kinda like they did with abortion laws, states had laws in place ready for Roe to be overturned.
good luck getting state and local cops to enforce federal laws on the plantations who benefit from the muddied discrepancies. the feds might show up for human trafficking of migrants, or H-2A workers filing a complaint, depending on the administration because there’s a paper trail of federal documents.
even the references 1938 standard had carve-out exemptions and more lax standards for children engaged in agricultural labor.
similar to how the NLRA doesn’t cover agricultural labor.
agriculture has always lived in this grey area where the law is whatever the guy standing over you says it is. I mean shit, the still present constitutional exemption for the prohibition of slavery was written for agriculture.
anyway, not to derail because it’s peripheral to the post, but it’s something I’ve learned more about in the last 10 years or so. ag is rife with crazy worker exploitation.
Yeah, I actually grew up doing ag work in one of those states. I’m not like…disagreeing with you or anything. Just think it’s funny that the laws have existed longer than this guy has been alive. There are tons of exemptions etc, but explaining all of that sort of ruins the humor in it
this dude is certainly lying, but…
fun fact: in most every US state, agricultural activity/labor is exempt from minimum wage and child labor laws.
The federal laws would still apply. I’m assuming the state laws are either old or in place for when the feds get rid of child labor laws. Kinda like they did with abortion laws, states had laws in place ready for Roe to be overturned.
good luck getting state and local cops to enforce federal laws on the plantations who benefit from the muddied discrepancies. the feds might show up for human trafficking of migrants, or H-2A workers filing a complaint, depending on the administration because there’s a paper trail of federal documents.
even the references 1938 standard had carve-out exemptions and more lax standards for children engaged in agricultural labor.
similar to how the NLRA doesn’t cover agricultural labor.
agriculture has always lived in this grey area where the law is whatever the guy standing over you says it is. I mean shit, the still present constitutional exemption for the prohibition of slavery was written for agriculture.
anyway, not to derail because it’s peripheral to the post, but it’s something I’ve learned more about in the last 10 years or so. ag is rife with crazy worker exploitation.
Yeah, I actually grew up doing ag work in one of those states. I’m not like…disagreeing with you or anything. Just think it’s funny that the laws have existed longer than this guy has been alive. There are tons of exemptions etc, but explaining all of that sort of ruins the humor in it