CONSUMER BRIEFS / EMPLOYMENT

The National Consumers League has named its annual Five Worst Teen Jobs, and for the third year in a row an agriculture job tops the list of gigs teenagers are advised to avoid.

The jobs are:

1. Harvesting crops

2. Construction, height work

3. Driving forklifts, tractors and all-terrain vehicles

4. Traveling sales crews

5. Landscaping, grounds-keeping and lawn service

In this year’s report, the league added illegal jobs in meatpacking plants as a Bonus Worst Job. Recent federal immigration raids have found children as young as 15 working in meatpacking plants, the league said, despite laws that mandate employees be at least 18 to work in the plants.

The league uses government statistics, reports from state labor officials and news accounts of injuries and deaths to produce its annual report, with the help of the Child Labor Coalition.