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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Provisions in a Labor Department rule addressing the treatment and pay of H-2A farmworkers have been enjoined by a federal judge who ruled Monday the department exceeded its authority or did not adequately explain why it was changing its regulations.
The departments of Homeland Security and Labor need to streamline their operation of the H-2A farmworker program both to facilitate electronic processing of applications and more quickly identify workers who are due back wages, the Government Accountability Office said in a report issued last week.
The ag industry is watching to see how the Trump administration fulfills its pledge to deport millions of immigrant workers. Dairy farmers are especially concerned.
Former President Donald Trump’s plans to deport millions of undocumented immigrants if he wins a second term would decimate the agricultural workforce, farm group leaders say.
Farmers can afford to implement a new heat standard, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in an analysis of a proposed rule that shows annual costs for most farming operations would be less than 1% of revenue.
The level of farmworker wages continues to vex the ag industry and farmworker representatives, who say the way they are calculated results in wages being either too low or too high.
Hotter temperatures during the summer are leading the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to develop a heat standard for worker safety that OSHA has been working on since 2021.
A court has rejected a challenge by agricultural employers to the Labor Department’s 2022 H-2A rule, finding that the department properly followed notice-and-comment procedures.
