North Carolina farmers' federal lawsuit challenging changes to the H-2A visa program could end soon, thanks to a similar case in Louisiana. US Justice Department lawyers filed a court document Monday asking a judge to dismiss the North Carolina case as moot.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a request from farm owners to block wage rule changes tied to the federal H-2A visa program. Critics had warned that the Biden administration changes would inflate farmers' costs and drive some toward hiring illegal immigrants.
A federal judge has rejected Perdue Farms’ request for an injunction blocking federal labor officials from hearing a whistleblower complaint from Robeson County originally filed 10 years ago. US District Judge Terrence Boyle issued an order Tuesday denying Perdue’s motion for an injunction against the US Department of Labor and poultry farmer Craig Watts.
Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker, a Democrat, says if he is elected state labor commissioner he would pursue businesses committing safety, wage, and benefit violations aggressively, filing lawsuits if he must. Republican incumbent Cherie Berry counters that adversarial relations harm the state economically when other methods are available to solve disputes. “My opponent thinks I...
