QUINCY, ILL. -- The U.S. Labor Department has withdrawn controversial new regulations for young people working in agriculture.
The rules would have banned children younger than 16 from using most power-driven farm equipment, including tractors as well as battery-powered screwdrivers.
Minors also would have been excluded from working with livestock over the age of six months.
The plan did exclude children working on their parents' farms.
However the White House has scrapped the rules due to concern from the public over how they could affect family farms.
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