Senate Rs seek to block H-2A wage increases
Story Date: 11/3/2021

  Source: AGRI-PULSE, 11/2/21

Four Senate Republicans are introducing a bill today that could stop the Labor Department from increasing the wages that farmers must pay H-2A workers in many states. The minimum wage rates are set by an adverse effect wage rate, or AEWR, that the department sets each year based on a USDA survey that typically comes out each November.

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