 department of labor reversal  the obama administration has reversed a proposal that would have prevented farm kids from doing farm chores on their family farm the department of labor wanted to apply childlabor laws to children working on the family farm under the proposed rules children under 18 could no longer work in the storing marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials for an article on the reversal by the department of labor and what their original proposal was to ldquo regulate rdquo family farms click ion the following story link  http wwwmichiganviewcom article 20120426 miview 204260505 vinessanitybackonthefarm 19  department labor reversal  