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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1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).
The Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (FLCRA) — P.L. 88-582 (September 7, 1964, as amended) — regulated the activities of farm labor contractors, that is, agents who recruit and are otherwise engaged in the transport, housing, and employment of migratory agricultural workers.
Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 H.R. 1537: March 3, 2021 Zoe Lofgren(D-CA) 3 Referred to Committees on Judiciary, Ways and Means, Education and Labor and Financial Services: H.R. 1603: March 8, 2021 Zoe Lofgren(D-CA) 61 Passed in the House (247-174). [5] [6] 118th Congress: Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2023 H.R. 4319: June 23, 2023
“The labor shortage is huge and it’s real and it hasn’t been addressed in a long time.” Newhouse, ag leaders push for federal Farm Workforce Modernization Act before year’s end Skip to ...
A Kennewick contractor has been fined a quarter of a million dollars for mistreatment of farmworkers. Kennewick-based farm labor contractor Harvest Plus LLC housed farmworkers in unhealthy living ...
In July 2018 Bornt & Sons, Inc. and its former farm labor contractor Barraza Farm Service, LLC / Barraza Farm Service, Inc. paid $300,000 and furnished other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Commission. [48] Sexual assault is continually persistent in the world of agriculture.
The most serious violation was failing to provide a disclosure statement to workers.
Commission on the Application of Payment Limitations for Agriculture ... Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act; Farm operating loans ... Federal Crop Insurance ...