Chevron’s End Undercuts Defense of H-2A Wage Rule, Group Says

The US Labor Department’s defense of its wage regulations for seasonal farmworkers is undermined by the US Supreme Court’s recent decision scaling back agencies’ authority to interpret ambiguous laws, a sugar cane industry group argued.

The DOL argued in response to the group’s bid to block the rule last year that the court should defer to the agency’s interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act because it was “reasonable and permissible.”

But Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo found that interpreting statutes is a legal matter that—unlike the Chevron doctrine—"must be resolved exclusively by the courts, without any deference to executive ...