The U.S. Labor Department rule changing how the agency calculates wage rates for temporary guest workers in the H-2A agricultural visa program violates the Administrative Procedure Act and must be set aside, according to a lawsuit filed in a California federal court.
The United Farm Workers and its foundation filed a complaint Monday against the department and Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia, contending the Nov. 5 regulation undermines wage protections for U.S. and temporary foreign workers under the H-2A program.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California at Fresno, requests a preliminary injunction to ...
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