Kids in the U.S. can take on unlimited hours of agricultural labor so long as they don’t miss school and have a parent’s permission. Such policies harm children of Hispanic origin, as they “make up the vast majority of hired child farmworkers.”
Because that grueling work occurred on a farm, it was allowed.
“In other industries, children typically cannot work until they’re at least 14, and even then they’re subjected to limited hours. Yet there is no minimum age for children who work on small or family farms.” There’s little doubt that agricultural work can be dangerous. In 2018, the Government Accountability Office said in a study that while work-related injuries appear to have declined among children, more than half of work-related child fatalities from 2003 to 2016 still occurred in agriculture, despite the field only employing a small percentage of working kids.
— Norma Flores López was 12 when she began working 10- to 12-hour days Rep. Alma Adams, a North Carolina Democrat and the chairwoman of the Labor Workforce Protections Subcommittee, is a co-sponsor of that bill. She said during Wednesday’s hearing that the country had “turned its back on child farmworkers.”
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