The laws allow employers to work children for longer hours and in more hazardous conditions than children working in other jobs. Some young farmworkers earn far less than minimum wage. Girls are routinely subjected to sexual advances by farm labor contractors and field supervisors. Only 55 percent of farmworker children in the United States finish high school. Many young farmworkers are forced to work without access to toilet facilities or hand-washing facilities.
Employers often fail to provide adequate drinking water for workers.
The organization is calling on Congress to amend current laws to protect all working children equally. It is also calling on the Department of Labor to dramatically increase inspections targeting child labor violations in agriculture. After her then a bunch of people were fainting. The Fair Labor Standards Act is the current US law that governs child farmworkers. It was written in 1938, when children in agriculture were working on their own family farms.