Labor Department Backtracks

The Labor Department’s already gone back to the drawing board on its proposed rule to  limit on-farm child labor for kids under 16. But lawmakers and farm interests heaped scorn - even ridicule - on labor’s efforts at a Congressional hearing.

DOL Deputy Administrator Nancy Leppink insisted to a House Small Business Subcommittee her agency’s top priority is the safety of farm kids - whose injury and fatality rate - she claimed - is far higher than in any other industry…