Session #102 · 1991–93

Speech #1020014345

Accordingly. the bill requires employers of minors to provide the State with written notice of the name and occupation of the minor. If a child in the course of employment suffers death or an injury resulting in lost work time of at least 1 working day. the employer must provide the State with a written description of the death or injury. Another problem this legislation seeks to correct is the terrible exploitation of children under agd 14 who work as migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Children aged 12. 10. 8. and even 6 years old are working with hazardous pesticides or performing backbreaking "stoop labor" in the fields. These children must be protected. Let me make clear that I fully understand the political. social. and economic reasons for exempting children working on family farms from child labor laws. Our bill will not affect that exemption in any way. However. these reasons do not apply to children outside the family farm. who are under age 14 and work as migrant and seasonal farmworkers. These children come from a population that. regrettably. has been among our most vulnerable and most exploited in recent decades. They deserve the basic protections guaranteed in the FLSA.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
70%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
HOWARD METZENBAUM
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
OH
Gender
M
Date
1991-03-07
Speech ID
1020014345
Paragraph
#0
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