<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>A couple corrections concerning his newsletter . . .</div><div><br></div><div>- The Future Logging Careers Act is neither HR 1215 nor S 694. It is . . .</div><div><br></div><b>Senate Bill 2335, The Future Logging Careers Act</b></div><div><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s2335is/pdf/BILLS-113s2335is.pdf">http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113s2335is/pdf/BILLS-113s2335is.pdf</a><br><div><br></div><div>- Senate Bill 2335 is quoted here:</div><div><br></div><div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'DeVinne'">‘‘(8) The provisions of section 12 relating to </span><span style="font-family: DeVinne; font-size: 14pt;">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.’’. </span></p><p><font face="DeVinne"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Question: Would a logging company employer be considered to be "</span></font><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: DeVinne;">a person standing in the place of his parent" . . . much like a summer camp supervisor?</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Congressman Raul Labrador <<a href="mailto:raul.labrador@congressnewsletter.net">raul.labrador@congressnewsletter.net</a>><br><b>Date:</b> March 13, 2015 at 8:05:04 AM PDT<br><b>To:</b> Thomas Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Helping young loggers get into to the woods</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:2100124448.153229.56@congressnewsletter.net">2100124448.153229.56@congressnewsletter.net</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Helping young loggers get into to
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Dear Friends,</p>
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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.</p>
<p>
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.</p>
<p>
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.</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
<p>
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.</p>
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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.”</p>
<p>
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.</p>
<p>
“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.”</p>
<p>
The Future Logging
Careers Act is endorsed by the American Loggers Council, which represents
harvesters in 30 states.</p>
<p>
“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.”</p>
<p>
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.</p>
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