Source: Dan Wheat, CAPITAL PRESS, 11/28/18



The National Council of Agricultural Employers is asking the federal government for “short-term relief” from imposition of new minimum wage rates for H-2A-visa foreign guestworkers in 2019.  The National Agricultural Statistics Service released a report Nov. 15 showing its calculations for the 2019 wages based on a survey of prevailing wages of field and livestock workers by region across the nation.  The proposed hourly wages would increase 6.3 percent nationwide...

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