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> Work as a homeworker gathering evergreens and making evergreen wreaths I would love to know the history of that incredibly specific exemption.
by jaywalk 4y ago
> Work as a homeworker gathering evergreens and making evergreen wreaths
I would love to know the history of that incredibly specific exemption.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoYeah, I can't find it. My best guess is from the statute itself: https://www.govregs.com/regulations/expand/title29_chapterV_part780_subpartK_subjgrp399_section780.1000 https://www.govregs.com/regulations/expand/title29_chapterV_... > § 780.1001 - General explanatory statement. Workers in rural areas sometimes engage, as a family unit, around the Christmas holidays, in gathering evergreens and making them into wreaths in their homes. Such workers, under well-settled interpretations by the Department of Labor and the courts, have been held to be employees of the firm which purchases the wreaths and furnishes the workers with wire used in making such wreaths. I would guess that back in the day people made wreaths to raise funds for the family to pay for Christmas gifts and celebrations, or maybe for general purposes. This section seems to be from 1972, so yeah, I don't know what was happening in the 60s/70s to promote this exemption. Very much early gig economy though.