YAKIMA, Wash. - Legal advocates for employees and employers are engaged in a public debate over whether the state Farm Labor Contractor Act is serving its original purpose to protect employees, or if ...

Farm labor advocates are calling on the Biden administration to focus enforcement efforts on violations of labor laws that occur during and after recruitment of farmworkers to pick crops in the U.S.

American agriculture relies on foreign workers, and that workforce is already stretched thin. With Trump’s immigration ...

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration ...

Finding good, reliable and legal workers that you can trust with your cows or driving your sophisticated farm equipment remains a challenge from coast to coast and all parts in between. The Trump ...

Operation Blooming Onion is among the largest criminal prosecutions of labor trafficking of foreign farmworkers. Cogdell Berry Farm hired labor contractors whose Georgia homes were searched, money ...

Farming, as we know, is labor intensive, especially during planting and harvest season. Strong labor management and leadership skills are required to run a successful farming operation. Good, reliable ...

A Kennewick contractor has been fined a quarter of a million dollars for mistreatment of farmworkers. Kennewick-based farm labor contractor Harvest Plus LLC housed farmworkers in unhealthy living ...

ALBANY — State officials recently finalized the process for farm laborers to be entitled to be paid overtime for work over 40 hours per week, which is to be phased in over the next decade and buoyed ...

Legislation to repeal the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Protections Act has been introduced in the state Senate. S.6924 is sponsored by state Sen. Robert Ortt, R-North Tonawanda, and was introduced in the ...

The Farm Laborer Wage Board on Friday voted 2-1 to recommend that state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon decrease the state’s farm worker weekly overtime threshold to 40 hours per week from 60 hours ...

Americans expect a lot from farmers and ranchers: fresh, unblemished fruits and vegetables, locally grown and responsibly harvested. In California, farmers and ranchers produce more than 400 ...