North Carolina’s top business lobbying group is urging a federal court in California to reject an injunction that would block a rule governing the H-2A agricultural worker visa program.
The US Department of Labor (DOL) has rolled out a new rule changing how farmworker wages are calculated. The move is meant to make pay fairer for workers and more predictable for farmers, updating a decades-old method with more accurate, state-level data. Proponents say it will help stabilize grocery prices and the costs that farmers...
The purpose of the working group would be to examine how the program currently operates within NC, identify areas for improvement, and determine the best practices being implemented in neighboring states.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from North Carolina farmers challenging Biden administration changes to the H-2A visa program. The judge accepted the federal government’s argument that a ruling in a Louisiana case made the North Carolina dispute moot.
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.
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North Carolina farmers are among the nation’s most-frequent users of H-2A visas, accounting for about 7% of our total agricultural workforce.
NC leads the nation in tobacco exports, producing 260.1 million pounds annually, accounting for 60% of US tobacco production.
A report from the John Locke Foundation examines the labor shortage faced by farmers in North Carolina and ways to address it.
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.
“Our complaint is that the DOL doesn't have the authority to require collective bargaining or to provide collective bargaining and self-organization rights to workers; that's Congress' job,” Jake Parker, general counsel for the NC Farm Bureau, told the Carolina Journal.
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