“A bill to exempt certain 16- and 17-year-old individuals employed in logging operations from child labor laws.”
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This section (1) defines a "logging operation" under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to include mechanized operations, bucking or converting timber into logs or similar products, collecting or transporting such products, road or equipment maintenance for such activities, and related work—but excluding manual chainsaw felling or processing or use of cable skidders—and (2) defines a "mechanized operation" to include felling, skidding, loading, or processing timber using equipment other than manual chainsaws or cable skidders (e.g., feller-bunchers, forwarders, yarders). It further provides that FLSA child labor provisions apply to 16- and 17-year-olds employed in logging operations in occupations the Secretary of Labor declares particularly hazardous for those ages, except when employed by a parent or person standing in the place of a parent in a logging operation owned or operated by such parent or person. (Thus, such minors are prohibited from hazardous logging work except in family-owned operations.)