The Trump administration is planning new regulations to govern the wages of seasonal farmworkers on temporary H-2A visas.
The US Department of Labor sent an interim final rule (RIN: 1205-AC24) to the White House Wednesday addressing the adverse effect wage rate for non-range occupations.
The H-2A program, which has grown rapidly over the last two decades, allows farm employers to hire foreign workers for seasonal agricultural jobs when there isn’t adequate US labor available. Businesses must pay the highest of a collectively bargained wage, prevailing wage, or adverse effect wage rate to workers hired through the program. The ...