Farmers Contest Child-Labor Rules

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Current labor laws, which allow children under 16 to work at farms when they aren't in school, already limit the tasks they can do. But the Labor Department said the rules need updating to improve safety. Most fatal accidents involve machinery, ...

Some farmers are opposing new rules proposed by the federal government that would restrict the chores children can be hired to perform in the nation's fields, including driving tractors and rounding up cattle in corrals on horseback.

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