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In michigan at least, the child labor laws are exempt for family farms
No minimum wage, no limit to hours worked.
I am curious about this as it pertains to equipment etc and relationship to Farmer. In NY, we could do 'farm work' on the books but no equipment. Most of us made our 1st paycheck at Morgans Berry Farm picking strawberries.
We could work only so many hours but the hours were generous. Now the Morgan kids could work sun up to sun down if they wanted to cause it was their farm and they could run equipment.
We could all do anything on any farm as long as it wasnt on the books and the farmer was willing to take the risk of injury. Of course back then no one sued over hot coffee. =/
Does your states have any specifics like that Boyd or is it really more open?
I picked rocks out of beet fields for 1$ an hour in the mid 80's. And was glad to do it!
yeah, non relative kids weren't allowed to run equipment, but we stacked hay, picked berries, shucked corn...... Depended. All of us kids sorta floated between the 3 farms in the area.. So it was kinda neat! I remember buying my first pair of Girbaud jeans with money I made shovelling horse $... uhhhh stuff
The berry farm paid us differently tho, not by the hour but by the bucket (which was prolly a gallon size if I had to guess).. The farmer we did hay with paid us 3/hr and it usually took us a weekend to collect the hay from the fields, stack on trailor, drag it back to barns, then lift it up to the hay loft and stack. That was some good money, but only happened 2-3 times a year. Good money 20some years ago as a kid
In michigan at least, the child labor laws are exempt for family farms
I am curious about this as it pertains to equipment etc and relationship to Farmer. In NY, we could do 'farm work' on the books but no equipment. Most of us made our 1st paycheck at Morgans Berry Farm picking strawberries.
We could work only so many hours but the hours were generous. Now the Morgan kids could work sun up to sun down if they wanted to cause it was their farm and they could run equipment.
We could all do anything on any farm as long as it wasnt on the books and the farmer was willing to take the risk of injury. Of course back then no one sued over hot coffee. =/
Does your states have any specifics like that Boyd or is it really more open?
I picked rocks out of beet fields for 1$ an hour in the mid 80's. And was glad to do it!
yeah, non relative kids weren't allowed to run equipment, but we stacked hay, picked berries, shucked corn...... Depended. All of us kids sorta floated between the 3 farms in the area.. So it was kinda neat! I remember buying my first pair of Girbaud jeans with money I made shovelling horse $... uhhhh stuff
