The U.S. Labor Department rule changing how the agency calculates wage rates for temporary guest workers in the H-2A agricultural visa program violates the Administrative Procedure Act and must be set aside, according to a lawsuit filed in a California federal court. The United Farm Workers and its foundation filed a complaint Monday against the ...
On December 23, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Eastern California granted the United Farm Workers’ (UFW) motion for a preliminary injunction, preventing the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from freezing wages under the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program. Last month, DOL published a final rule freezing wages for 2021 and 2022 at ...