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DOL Suspends Enforcement of 2024 Farmworker Protection Rule
On June 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced it is suspending enforcement of the 2024 Farmworker Protection Rule (FWPR), effective immediately. This suspension is welcome news for H-2A employers, who have been navigating significant legal uncertainty since the FWPR’s implementation. The 2024 rule introduced expansive new requirements…
DIR Director Katie Hagen Resigns After Five-Year Tenure
According to Cal/OSHA Reporter, Katie Hagen has resigned from her position as Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), effective July 2025. Hagen will be departing for the private sector to assume the role of CEO at CPS HR Consulting, a Sacramento-based firm that serves public agencies and nonprofit organizations nationwide. Hagen’s departure marks the end of a…
Justices Reject Heightened Bar for Reverse Discrimination Plaintiffs
In a unanimous decision issued June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held that employees who allege discrimination, including so-called “reverse discrimination,” are entitled to equal treatment under federal law. The Court reversed a Sixth Circuit ruling that had imposed a heightened pleading standard on a heterosexual woman claiming sex-based discrimination in a state agency’s promotion…
Western Growers Advocacy Helps Defeat PAGA Workaround Bill
SB 310 (Wiener), a bill that would have undermined California’s recent bipartisan reforms to the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), has been moved to the Senate’s Inactive File and will not advance this session. June 6 marks the Legislature’s “house of origin” deadline—the last day for a bill to pass out of the chamber in which it was introduced. With SB 310 stalled in the Senate,…
DIR Director Katie Hagen Resigns After Five-Year Tenure
According to Cal/OSHA Reporter, Katie Hagen has resigned from her position as Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), effective July 2025. Hagen will be departing for the private sector to assume the role of CEO at CPS HR Consulting, a Sacramento-based firm that serves public agencies and nonprofit organizations nationwide. Hagen’s departure marks the end of a…
Federal Court Sets July 1 Hearing in AEWR Lawsuit Challenging DOL Wage Rule
A federal judge has scheduled a long-awaited hearing in a high-stakes legal challenge to the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2023 methodology for setting Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for H-2A workers. The lawsuit, brought by the National Council of Agricultural Employers (NCAE)—of which Western Growers is a member—alongside several Florida-based agricultural organizations, seeks to roll…