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  2. H-2A visa - Wikipedia

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    An H-2A visa allows a foreign national worker into the United States for temporary agricultural work. There are several requirements of the employer in regard to this visa. The H-2A temporary agricultural program establishes a means for agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to bring non-immigrant foreign workers to the U.S. to perform agricultural labor or ...

  3. The elaborate visa system that enables foreigners to work in ...

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    The names of the programs allowing foreigners to work in the US read vaguely like vitamin bottles: H-1B, P-2, H-2A, among others. Overall, the US offers over two handfuls of visa programs, denoted ...

  4. Guest worker program - Wikipedia

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    The Bracero Program was a temporary-worker importation agreement between the United States and Mexico from 1942 to 1964. Initially created in 1942 as an emergency procedure to alleviate wartime labor shortages, the program actually lasted until 1964, bringing approximately 4.5 million legal Mexican workers into the United States during its lifespan.

  5. Adverse Effect Wage Rate - Wikipedia

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    The Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) is the minimum wage that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has determined "must be offered and paid to U.S. and alien workers by agricultural employers of nonimmigrant H-2A visa agricultural workers" (Federal Register, February 10, 1999, p. 6690).

  6. Florida's state workers set to receive third consecutive ...

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    In sum, the plan spends about $134 million for a 3% pay increase for 96,863 state employees. ... Since 2019, state worker base pay has increased on average by about $4,000, according to DMS. ...

  7. South Carolina grower took farmworkers' pay for political ...

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    Billed as the largest peach grower on the East Coast, Titan violated H-2A program rules by requesting workers make political contributions that brought their pay below the required $11.13 hour ...

  8. Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration ...

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    This program increases the number of workers available, and makes several key changes, such as allowing "permanent" guest workers (in the sense that the nonimmigrant agricultural visa would be portable from employer to employer as seasons change, rather than requiring a new visa for each season as the current H-2A program does) rather than only ...

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

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    The new rule, which takes effect June 28, will target abuses experienced by workers under the H-2A program that undermine fair labor standards for all farmworkers.