Just days after rejecting proposed Labor Department changes to agricultural child labor regulations, President Barack Obama and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis are being criticized by labor organizations and child safety…
The U.S. House of Representatives is currently debating a bill that would block the implementation of recently proposed Department of Labor regulations seeking would reform agricultural child labor laws. The…
Earlier this week, the American Farm Bureau, in conjunction with Bayer CropScience and Capreno, announced the creation of an American farm heritage website. Part of the motivation for the creation…
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed several changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act that would strengthen prohibitions on child labor in the agricultural sector. The FLSA,…
Farm organizations and immigrant rights groups are threatening a boycott of Georgian agricultural products in the wake of a tough immigration bill that recently passed the Georgia legislature. In an…
A startling report by Bon Appétit Management Company and the United Farm Workers revealed serious abuses in farm labor laws in several U.S. states. Bon Appetit, the U.S. subsidiary of…