• Farm groups react to DOL H-2A final rule suspension

    Produce and farm industry grower groups are responding to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) suspending enforcement of a farmworker protection rule.
    On June 20, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division suspended the “Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States” rule. Components of the rule, which extended protections to H-2A workers who organize to form labor unions, had been enjoined nationwide since December 2024.
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