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

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    Since 2019, state worker base pay has increased on average by about $4,000. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has the last word on a state pay raise, proposed eliminating about 1,400 jobs across state ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. Pay raises for SC state employees settled. Here’s how much ...

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    The approach, which will cost the state an additional $155 million a year, is meant to give those on the lower end of the pay scale a larger percentage increase to deal with the effects of inflation.

  7. Operation Blooming Onion - Wikipedia

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    From the 2010s through the 2020s, the H-2A visa program grew significantly as farm owners struggled to hire enough domestic workers to tend to their crops. [5] Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people in Georgia who were in the state via an H-2A visa grew from roughly 5,500 to 27,614, [5] second only to Florida in the number of H-2A visa ...

  8. 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.

  9. H visa - Wikipedia

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    H-1B1 visa, a variant of the H-1B visa in the United States for nationals of Singapore and Chile; H-2A visa, allows a foreign national entry into the US for temporary or seasonal agricultural work; H-2B visa, allowing US employers to hire foreign workers to come temporarily to the United States and perform temporary nonagricultural services or ...