New federal rules to protect guest farmworkers to be implemented

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- For decades, U.S. employers oregon agents who conscionable circumstantial requirements tin prosecute radical from overseas countries to capable impermanent cultivation jobs done the H-2A program.

In June, caller rules volition beryllium enactment into play to service farmworkers better.

Diego Iñiguez-Lopez with the United Farm Workers Foundation (UFW) says portion the programme is simply a large accidental for radical successful hunt of enactment successful the United States, not everyone volition person the champion acquisition and often times consciousness vulnerable

"This triumph is simply a effect of farmworkers warring for it for years and years and advocating for accrued protection," Iñiguez-Lopez said.

The U-F-W posted respective stories of farmworkers sharing their idiosyncratic experiences connected societal media.

"Operation Blooming Onion was an probe and processed by the national authorities wherever they identified employers utilizing the H-2A programme fraudulently to get workers successful Georgia, Florida, Texas and that resulted successful the decease of 2 workplace workers, intersexual battle and different abuses," Iñiguez-Lopez said.

The adjustments made to the H-2A programme will:

• Strengthen protections against trafficking by prohibiting employers from confiscating passports.
• Make it much hard for employers to perpetrate wage theft by requiring transparency.
• Strengthen workers' rights to advocator and signifier a union.
• Protect workers from unjust firing and retaliation
• target unlawful fees andincrease enforcement tools against abusive employees.

Iñiguez-Lopez says the UFW volition proceed warring for rights and is arrogant of those who person been a voice.

"There are galore stories of them speaking out, of them moving with their co-workers and advocating successfully and this is simply a larger effect of that," Iñiguez-Lopez said.

The caller national rules of the H-2A programme spell into effect connected June 28.

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