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Small Compliance Errors Can Become Large Liabilities
By Jonathan A. Siegel, ESQ. of Jackson Lewis P.C. Employers managing for success should foster a culture of workplace compliance now more than ever. As operations expand, systems supporting the business should grow with it. Additionally, employers should consider reviewing their operations to ensure there are not systematic compliance issues which have not been previously ...
Trump, China, Tariffs, and TPP
By Christopher Oerman With the presidency of Donald Trump, the United States has found itself on the brink of a trade war with China. On President Trump’s first full day in office, he notoriously backed out of TPP, or the Trans Pacific Partnership. The Trans Pacific Partnership was an agreement between 12 countries: the United ...
Growing a Better Environment for the Future
Farmers are the original environmentalists, stewards of the land and protectors of the open space. Those who tend to our crops understand the symbiotic relationship between healthy food, healthy soil and clean water and air. The overwhelming majority of farmers operate with a single overriding objective: to sustainably manage our land so it can be ...
The Debt and Dangers of the Eurozone
You may have heard the words ECB, Eurozone, or even “Mario Draghi’ sometime in the past. But who and what are they, and why should Americans care about what’s going on across the pond? The Eurozone is a monetary union of 19 of the 28 European Union member states that have adopted the euro as ...
California Supreme Court Ruling Threatens Independent Contractor Relationships
By Terry O’Connor An increasingly unloved category of working persons, the Independent Contractor, has been moved to the endangered species list by a recent California Supreme Court decision. On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court adopted a new test for determining whether a worker should be classified as an independent contractor or an employee. ...
CROP FORECASTING AgriData Estimates Months in Advance
When Cyrille Habis and Prasad Nair embarked on their journey into agricultural technology, they did not envision that their end product would be a revolutionary data imagery package that could forecast yields weeks to months in advance. After all, the two specialized in building robots. “We initially wanted to build a drone or robotics company, ...
Green Jobs Still a Small Fraction of the California Economy
The concept of green jobs has increasingly been used as a tool to justify a broad range of environmental policies in California. Take, for example, AB 32 and SB 32, which individually require significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Proponents of these expansive environmental mandates rely on claims that these regulations will be “cost-free” as ...
Move Over Siri and Alexa, AgVoice Offers Speech-to-Text Technology Tailored to Ag
Think Siri, but for agriculture. When Bruce Rasa first conceptualized the idea of a speech-to-text data service powered by artificial intelligence, he knew that he wanted to design it with and for food and ag professionals. Growing up, Bruce always had both hands full while working on his family’s 4,000-acre farm in Missouri. His family ...
Legislator Profile Arizona State Representative TIM DUNN Representing the 13th District
(Editor’s Note: Tim Dunn was appointed to the Arizona House of Representatives to represent Arizona’s 13th Legislative District. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the University of Arizona, Rep. Dunn started his own grain company alongside his father. As a proud Yuma native, he understands the agricultural needs of his city.) Being ...
New Congress to Bring New Challenges & Opportunities
As we ring in the New Year we will be welcoming a new Congress to Washington. As all of you know that Congress will look very different in the House of Representatives than what was in place after the 2016 election, as Democrats are in control. Democrats flipped 40 seats—the fourth largest total of seats ...
De Minimis No More: The End of Even Nominal Off-the-Clock Work in California
By Christine Samsel and Sherli Frank The “de minimis” doctrine comes from the Latin maxim de minimis non curat lex, which means “the law does not concern itself with trifles.” The maxim suggests that technicalities must yield to practical common sense and justice so as to avoid expensive litigation. For the past 70 years, ...
Always Put Our Members First
By Matt Luis Being born and raised in the Central Valley, I’ve been surrounded by farming and production agriculture my entire life. But it wasn’t until a couple of years ago, when I came to Western Growers, that I embarked on a journey that allowed me to truly understand the complexities of an agricultural ...
2019 Economic Outlook
By Chris Oerman 2018 turned out to be a lackluster year for the equity markets after an unprecedented nine quarters of earnings growth and a historic bull run dating back to 2011. All of the major indices had flat or negative returns for the year, and it’s been hard to find any sort of ...
Shipping Trends to Watch in 2019
By Gary York Vice President, Global Sales, C.H. Robinson Recognizing how much the U.S. trucking market can influence transportation budgets is one of the most critical steps to managing spend. Temperature-controlled shipments can be especially affected—both in price and service—as market forces shift across the truckload landscape. Predicting the future for supply chains may ...
What Employers Should Know About California’s New Data Privacy Law
By Jennifer A. Jackson Employers with operations in California should be aware of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a new data privacy law that goes into effect January 1, 2020. Because the CCPA is framed in terms of protecting the rights of “consumers,” many employers may not realize that the act, as currently drafted, ...
We Are in This Together
By Darcie Floyd My understanding of the agriculture community and industry started from the very beginning. I grew up on a five-acre ranch in Sanger, CA, and participated in non-profit organizations like Girl Scouts and 4-H, which provide hands-on learning and education programs that teach children about responsibility, resiliency, hard work, and other life skills. ...
Data Storytelling and the Path to Success
By Marlene Hanken What’s your favorite story? At Western Growers, we are interested in the most compelling story of all—the story of your success. But how do we gauge success? What do those metrics looks like and how do we calculate them? Much like how the pirate Billy Bones used a treasure map to find ...
Why Supply Chain Visibility is Critically Important
By Mark Petersen, Vice President of Transportation, C.H. Robinson Worldwide While not always predictable, external factors can have a significant impact on supply chains. It is more important than ever for businesses to know exactly where items are in the supply chain at all times. The ability to watch and monitor a supply chain, often ...
Western Growers Law Firm Directory
Participants in Western Growers Ag Legal Network (WGALN) agree to give Western Growers members a 15 percent discount off of their normal legal services rates.* The WG-member law firms listed below specialize in a wide array of legal issues to fit virtually any need a member may have, from business contracts to labor issues to ...
Expense Reimbursement is the Law
By Terry O’Connor Labor Code § 2802 requires California employers to reimburse employees for all necessary expenditures incurred in the performance of their duties. In general, employers must reimburse the cost of uniforms, travel expenses, tools and equipment required for the job. Necessary expenditures include any attorney fees or costs incurred by employees to recoup ...