Federal legislators have followed through on previously announced plans to try to overturn the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule to determine wages for temporary foreign agricultural workers under the H-2A program. H-2A workers harvest a majority of Florida’s citrus crop.
Legislators introduced House and Senate Congressional Review Act resolutions to nullify the DOL’s adverse effect wage rates (AEWRs) methodology rule. The action was taken by U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, House Agriculture Committee Chairman G.T. Thompson and U.S. Senators Tim Scott and Ted Budd. It was in reaction to the DOL, which in late February published the final rule regarding the methodology used to determine the AEWRs. The rule became effective March 30.
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