Hiring Ag Workers Becomes More Difficult
Farm Operations Affected
Bryan Little, director of labor affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation, says the new ruling will have an impact on farm operations in the state.
"Congress intended for this program to be able to provide growers with a reasonable safety valve to make sure they have an adequate number of legal workers when they can't recruit them in any other way," he says.
"What the Department of Labor is doing with the new rule is effectively shutting off that safety valve."
Little says a relatively small number of California producers use the H-2A program now, and the new rule "is going to make it very difficult" for them to continue using the program.
source : cottonfarming
Farm Operations Affected
Bryan Little, director of labor affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation, says the new ruling will have an impact on farm operations in the state.
"Congress intended for this program to be able to provide growers with a reasonable safety valve to make sure they have an adequate number of legal workers when they can't recruit them in any other way," he says.
"What the Department of Labor is doing with the new rule is effectively shutting off that safety valve."
Little says a relatively small number of California producers use the H-2A program now, and the new rule "is going to make it very difficult" for them to continue using the program.
source : cottonfarming
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