[Vision2020] Fwd: Helping young loggers get into to the woods

[Tom Hansen]

So, now we have Rep. Labrador slowly, but surely, disqualifying child labor laws by allowing logging companies to employ 16- and 17-year olds into the logging industry.

A couple corrections concerning his newsletter . . .

- The Future Logging Careers Act is neither HR 1215 nor S 694. It is . . .

Senate Bill 2335, The Future Logging Careers Act
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s2335is/pdf/BILLS-113s2335is.pdf

- Senate Bill 2335 is quoted here:

‘‘(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to child labor shall apply to an employee who is 16 or 17 years old employed in a logging or mechanized operation in an occupation that the Secretary of Labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for the employment of children ages 16 or 17, except where such employee is employed by his parent or by a person standing in the place of his parent in a logging or mechanized operation owned or operated by such parent or person.’’. 

Question:  Would a logging company employer be considered to be "a person standing in the place of his parent" . . . much like a summer camp supervisor?

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


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> From: Congressman Raul Labrador <raul.labrador at congressnewsletter.net>
> Date: March 13, 2015 at 8:05:04 AM PDT
> To: Thomas Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> Subject: Helping young loggers get into to the woods
> Reply-To: 2100124448.153229.56 at congressnewsletter.net
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> March 13, 2015
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> Dear Friends,
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> Last week I introduced the Future Logging Careers Act, a bill that would allow family-owned timber harvesters to train the next generation in one of Idaho’s most important natural resource industries.
> 
> H.R. 1215 would extend an exemption already applied to agriculture and allow 16- and 17-year-old children to work for their parents in the woods.
> 
> Like farming and ranching, timber harvesting is often a family business where the practice of felling and transporting timber from the forest to the mill passes from generation to generation. It’s only fair that the exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act for agriculture be applied to the timber industry.
> 
> I first got the idea for this bill after meeting with two Idaho loggers from third-generation logging families, Tim Christopherson of Kamiah and Mark Mahon of Council. They worked in their family operations as teenagers.
> 
> Christopherson started before he turned 18, thinking the ag exemption applied to logging. “If I hadn’t been able to work in the woods when I was young, I wouldn’t have chosen this career,” said Christopherson, whose family-owned DABCO Inc. employs 18 workers.
> 
> Two years ago, Mahon’s son, J.T., was working for the family-owned Tom Mahon Logging when a U.S. Forest Service employee sent him home because of the lack of an exemption. J.T. plays football, basketball and runs track for the Council High School Lumberjacks.
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> "He’s in better physical shape than I am,” said Mark Mahon, vice president of the Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho. “Working for their families provides a path for young people to get a taste of the industry. Once you get that in your blood, it’s kind of hard to get it out.”
> 
> Tom Mahon Logging was started by J.T.’s great-grandfather, Joseph. Tom Mahon, 71, still works for the company, along with a second son, Joe. The company employs 12 people in Adams County, where unemployment reached 16 percent during the Great Recession.
> 
> “There are easier ways to make a living, but for us it’s a labor of love,” Mark Mahon said. “It’s who we are – loggers.”
> 
> The Future Logging Careers Act is endorsed by the American Loggers Council, which represents harvesters in 30 states.
> 
> “We strive to operate safely and want to be able to pass along this generation’s skills in professional harvesting to our next generation,” said Shawn Keough, executive director of the Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho. “This bill will allow us to train those who wish to follow in their family’s proud tradition. We applaud Congressman Labrador for his leadership.”
> 
> My bill would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to work in mechanized logging operations under parental supervision. H.R. 1215 has nine original cosponsors from eight states, including Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho. This week, Idaho GOP Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo introduced a companion bill in the Senate, S. 694.
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