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Hire Children
After School Hours
With the start of the school year, farmers were reminded to hire youngsters under 16 only outside school hours by Pat Meloan, Regional Director of the U. S. Department of Labor’s Wage-Hour Division.
Even the 14-and-15-year-olds who have successfully completed the special 4-H courses in tractor and other equipment operation, and vocational agriculture students may not work during school hours under the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Meloan said.
The Division is presently instituting a Fall back-to-school campaign, he explained, and is responsible for enforcing the child labor standards of the FLSA. A'This law applies to migrants as well as local children so both may get the education needed in today’s economy,” Meloan stated. “A youngster’s future success depends on the schooling he gets,” he emphasized.
That young farmworkers generally aren’t getting as much education as other youngsters is evident from the Division’s findings on working farm children, Meloan reported. Last year over half of the minors found working on farms during school hours were in grades lower than normal for their ages, and at age 15, a'l m o s t 8 o u t of 10 were behind in school grade level, he said.
Mr. Meloan pointed out that the FLSA does not affect children who work on the home farm for their parents or guardians.
He reminded farmers that in States where the child labor laws differed from the Federal standards, the higher ones apply.
“The staff of the Division’s Area Office at Room 10-016 Federal Building, 400 North 8th Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219 (telephone: 703 - 649-3611), will be happy to answer any questions about the Act,” he added.
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