Bloomberg Law
March 19, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

Growers Lose Case Over Wage Hikes for Agricultural Guestworkers

Laura D. Francis
Laura D. Francis
Reporter

A group of growers unhappy with the hike in wages that must be paid to agricultural guestworkers this year have lost their court bid to overturn that requirement.

A federal judge in Washington March 18 said the growers’ underlying beef wasn’t with the 2019 wage rates themselves, but rather the Labor Department’s methodology for calculating them. The DOL adopted that methodology in a 2010 regulation, meaning the growers’ January 2019 lawsuit was filed too late.

The National Council of Agricultural Employers and Nevada-based Peri & Sons Farms said the adverse effect wage rates for 2019 were so high that ...

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