Items Tagged with 'California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation'

The number of unfilled grain car orders shot up 231% during the second quarter of this year, according to an American Farm Bureau Federation analysis of government data.

Lawmakers are hoping to protect vulnerable H-2A temporary guestworkers from exploitative practices by returning to two earlier legislative proposals.

A controversial measure requiring ag employers to notify H-2A guestworkers of their labor and housing protections and pay for travel time has returned after a veto last year.

Ag groups worry a new COVID-19 regulation sets unrealistic mandates for protecting farmworkers in employer-provided housing and transportation.

DPR has spent five years cautiously scrutinizing an organic pesticide already registered in the U.S. since the 1960s.

Sen. Bill Monning of the Central Coast wants to inform H-2A guestworkers of their rights when it comes to labor, housing, health and safety.

Cal/OSHA issues guidelines for protecting workers from coronavirus * EPA fines San Francisco-based Wilbur-Ellis over pesticide mishandling * California wine grape processing declined in 2019