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Roger McEowen, Professor of Agricultural Law and Taxation at Washburn University, spoke with us recently about laws surrounding H-2A workers and their effects on the agriculture industry. Here is what he shared. “You know, trends, it’s been up significantly for quite some time, but really ramped up in the past year or two,” McEowen commented. “So it’s indispensable for a …
You’re invited to attend the 26th Georgia Agricultural Labor Relations Forum. The Labor Relations Forum will be talking about H-2A and all the problems involving that program. It’s August 25 and 26. It’s a two-day program of updates and discussions tailored for agricultural employers at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton. That is August 25 and …
The U.S. Peanut Federation has been working with the chairman of the House Ag Committee on the labor legislation that will provide some help at the farm level or all across the industry. It’s called the Securing Ag Workforce Act, which addresses key challenges for the peanut industry, such as broadening eligible H-2A activities to include the following key industry …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced it will discontinue the Farm Labor Survey, a decision that may have significant implications for farm wage reporting and the future of agricultural labor programs like H-2A. According to a filing in the Federal Register, USDA is ending the long-standing survey due to “recent improvements to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of …
The minimum wage for H-2A guest workers is likely to rise in several states during 2018. The National Ag Statistics Service (NASS) surveys the prevailing wages of field and livestock workers in different regions across the country. The NASS calculations are normally adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor in December as the Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for the …
