Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 12/24/20


The status of the 2021 H-2A program wage rates is up in the air again. A  federal court in California has enjoined the U.S. Department of Labor’s decision to freeze farmworkers’ wages employed at farms that use the H-2A agricultural guest worker program.  The preliminary injunction was issued by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd in Fresno in a lawsuit filed by the United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation, represented by Farmworker Justice and the law firm WilmerHale, according to a news release.

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