There are hundreds of thousands of child farm workers laboring under challenging and bad conditions in the United States of America. This is according to a human rights watch report dubbed, Fingers to the bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farm Workers. This rights group made discoveries that the child laborers are often made to toil between twelve and fourteen hours a single day and stand a risk of pesticide poisoning, heat exposure effects, injuries and health complications that could last a life time. However, the majority of this population that makes up the child laborers is from Latino. This paper seeks to demystify the issue of Child Labor in agriculture in the United States using information from a Human Rights Watch. The kind of rules that govern minors who work in agriculture have been found to be less strict when compared with those existing in other sectors of the economy. They unfortunately permit children to work at very young ages and for longer durations in very dangerous situations than children working in other sectors. Previous conducted researches attest to the fact that farm work remains the most perilous work that is available to children in the United States of America. This implies therefore that the laws in the country have to be changed if the health, safety and edification of children are to be guaranteed. The federal law that was institutionalized in 1938 is the one responsible for the exemption of the child laborers from the minimum age and maximum hour requirement that protects other children. At the level of the state, eighteen of them lack a minimum age for farm work while others even have the minimum requirement to as shocking as nine or ten years. The report from the Human Rights W… … middle of paper … … the already set laws, including least wage necessities, and the Environmental Protection Agency to safeguard the children from contact with pesticides in a more efficient manner (U. S. Department of Labor, 1996). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has to develop strict regulations of the field sanitation and all the federal governments have to increase the minimum age limit to at least fourteen years. Works Cited http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2000/06/19/abusive-child-labor-found-us-agriculture National Research Council. Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children. (1993). Pesticides in the diets of infants and children. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. U. S. Department of Labor. (1996). State Workers Compensation Laws. Washington, DC: Author, Employment Standards Administration, Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs.
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