The H-2A program, while far from perfect, keeps American farms running by providing a reliable workforce when local labor simply isn’t available.
A workers are at the total mercy of employers who control their livelihoods through the visas they obtain for their employees ...
Agricultural employers, already facing challenges to recruit enough workers, could be forced to depend even more on an imperfect and costly visa program called H-2A. About 80% of all farmworkers ...
While the trade war with Canada and Mexico received another delay in their implementation, that’s not the only thing ...
Spring is only a couple of weeks away and there is work to be done on the Grand Valley’s orchards and vineyards. Fruit trees ...
This Week on the Farm, we delve into the H-2A Visa Program, which allows Old Mission Peninsula farmers to bring in foreign ...
A Michigan State Greenhouse Extension Educator provides labor insights for floriculture industry stakeholders and policy ...
Bipartisan legislation to pause H-2A guest worker wage rates has been reintroduced in the U.S. House Michigan Republican John ...
Ag leaders called for much-needed reform to the H-2A guest worker program as part of the Senate Ag Committee’s hearing on ...
Farm groups appealed to the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday for reforms to the H-2A visa program, which allows agricultural employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary jobs.
Expanded E-Verify could help reduce identity fraud but Utah businesses said it would eliminate their labor pool.
Because they reside in the U.S. solely for the duration of their contracts, H-2A guestworkers are largely ineligible for unemployment insurance, yet their employers must still contribute to the ...