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Child Labor On Farms
Under Wage-Hour Law
Employment of children under 16 years of age for work in the strawberry, spinach, bean, tomato and potato fields or for other agricultural work, if the crops are shipped either directly or indirect^ ly out of the state, is subject to the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (Wage and Hour Law), it was pointed out today by William M. Eaves, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Divisions.
Eaves explained that the law sets no limit for the agricultural employment of children if the employment is after school hours in the district, or if the children are employed by their parents on their parents’ farms. The law furthermore exempts children in agricultural employment from its minimum wage and overtime provisions.
Eaves said that prospective employers of children of doubtful age could protect themselves from unwitting violation of the law by having on file a proof-of-age certificate for each employed child. Such certificate can be obtained by the prospective employee from a local school official.
“The law as amended, effective January 25, 1950,” Eaves said, “prohibits the employment of children under 16 years of age in interstate agriculture during the hours that .school is in session in the district in which they live. It applies equally to resident as well as to migratory child labor.”
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