Items Tagged with 'Adverse Effect Wage Rate'

A federal heat standard that would give breaks to farmworkers so they can cool down when temperatures reach “heightened levels” is among recommendations for Congress advanced by a bipartisan working group of House Agriculture Committee members tasked with examining ways to address ag’s labor shortage.

Farms may be required to pay higher wages to some foreign workers under changes the Labor Department has finalized in the way that H-2A minimum pay rates are calculated.