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2. Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act of ...

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   The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA or MSPA) (public law 97-470) (January 14, 1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).

3. Agricultural safety and health - Wikipedia

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   The agriculture industry is one of the most dangerous occupations and has led to thousands of deaths due to work-related injuries in the US. In 2011 the fatality rate for farmworkers was 7 times higher than that of all the workers in the private industry, a difference of 24.9 deaths for every 100,000 people as opposed to 3.5 deaths for every 100,000 people in the private industry. [4]

4. Farmworkers in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Farmworkers in Fort Valley, Georgia in 2019. Farmworkers in the United States have unique demographics, wages, working conditions, organizing, and environmental aspects. . According to The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in Agricultural Safety, approximately 2,112,626 full-time workers were employed in production agriculture in the US in 2019 and approximately 1.4 to 2.1 ...

5. Temporary farmworkers get more protections against ... - AOL

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   Temporary farmworkers will have more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment practices and other abuses under a Labor Department rule ...

6. US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from ... - AOL

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   U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in ...

7. Farmworkers die in traffic every year. Are loopholes in the ...

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   Hundreds of candles sit at the base of a memorial dedicated to farm workers killed in a crash in Madera the morning of Feb. 23. The memorial is located on Avenue 7 near Road 22.