Title: Identify labor laws relative to agricultural business.
Course: Agricultural Business Fundamentals I (18201-I) > Section: Using Business Laws in Agribusiness

Identification should include

- Fair Labor Standards Act (e.g., minimum wage law)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- tax exemption for minimum-wage earners
- lower youth minimum wage
- child labor laws and adherence to federal regulations
- overtime pay
- indirect employment
- health care
- employer-employee privacy
- migrant labor laws and regulations.

Teacher Resource:

SAE Resources, The National Council for Agricultural Education, (https://thecouncil.ffa.org/sae-resources/)

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are some labor laws that apply to agriculture at the production level?
- Why are some agricultural enterprises exempt from minimum wage laws?
- Why are some agricultural enterprises exempt from overtime laws?
- When an agricultural producer contracts with a farm labor contractor, in what ways does that shift responsibilities from the agricultural producer to the contractor?
- What restrictions are there on young people working in agricultural positions?
- When might young people working in agricultural positions be paid less, legally, than adults working in the same position?