June 17, 2024
A farm group shouldn't be allowed to revise its challenge to the U.S. Department of Labor's new wage rule for certain temporary workers, the agency told a Charlotte, North Carolina, federal judge, saying the revision attempt comes too late as the matter is already awaiting the judge's decision.
May 13, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor rejected a group of farms' criticisms of new H-2A agricultural wages as a mere policy disagreement, telling a North Carolina federal court that the rule was appropriately enacted after taking stock of its potential financial effects.
April 09, 2024
A federal judge has refused to let agricultural businesses gather more information on the decision-making behind new H-2A agricultural worker minimum wages, rejecting claims that more discovery was warranted in light of a September order allowing the wages to take hold.
March 18, 2024
Visa-filing agency USA Farm Labor Inc. and a slew of farms and ranches said the attorney general didn't approve the U.S. Department of Labor's rule regulating wages for foreign H-2A farmworkers, urging a North Carolina federal judge to hand them a win.
February 01, 2024
The Biden administration urged the Fourth Circuit to reject an argument that the U.S. Department of Labor was required to consider the effects of a rule regulating H-2A wages on illegal immigration, saying the argument, attached to a challenge of the rule, came too late.
January 25, 2024
The federal government called on a North Carolina federal judge to reject a bid by agricultural industry groups to produce the full administrative record related to changes in wage calculations for foreign guest workers, deriding the request as a delay tactic.
January 11, 2024
Critics challenging the new wage calculations for H-2A workers have asked a North Carolina federal judge if they can look into the U.S. Department of Labor's decision-making process, saying they want a chance to prove the agency overlooked the rule's impact on illegal immigration.
December 05, 2023
A U.S. Department of Labor rule regulating wages for H-2A workers would make foreign labor unaffordable for employers and increase illegal immigration, a group of ranches and farms told the Fourth Circuit, saying implementation of the rule should be halted.
September 26, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge refused to block the Biden administration's new wage calculations for the H-2A agricultural guest worker program, ruling Tuesday that critics of the methodology are unlikely to show the administration acted beyond its authority.
September 20, 2023
A farm and an H-2A visa filing agency said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Labor's recent rule on wage rates for temporary visa-holding farmworkers is already hurting them, urging a North Carolina federal judge to spare them from following it.