Download or read book Agricultural Labor Supply and the H 2A Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation and Business Opportunities and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The H 2A Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the: (1) wage and nonwage protection that the Department of Labor's (DOL) regulations afford U.S. farmworkers under the H-2A Program, which allows for the admission of foreign agricultural workers; and (2) quality of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) surveys DOL used to set minimum wages and to certify a shortage of U.S. workers. GAO found that: (1) USDA never measured the precision of the annual hourly wage rate estimates that DOL used to set statewide minimum wages; (2) there may be unacceptably large error margins for at least three regions of the country; (3) the USDA surveys measured a general farm wage that was lower than the average U.S. wage for workers employed in the same crop activities as H-2A workers; and (4) the technical quality of the 15 wage surveys conducted during 1987 varied because of the inconsistent counting of undocumented workers, low response rates, unsystematically compiled employer lists, analytical miscalculations, inadequate survey quality indicators, poor interview schedule quality, and inadequate monitoring. GAO also found that: (1) since DOL determined the prevailing wage only with regard to the most common unit of payment, differing payment units could result in inaccuracies; (2) wage minimums based solely on prevailing wages would not grant relevant protections because the presence of foreign workers would depress the prevailing wages; (3) DOL set an adverse-effect wage rate as a minimum wage to offset wage depression and generally indexed it to a large-scale wage survey; and (4) because the legislative mandate was so broad, DOL could interpret adverse effect in several ways. In addition, GAO found that: (1) DOL practices provided weak protection for U.S. workers; (2) some growers preferred foreign workers because they could recruit more selectively; (3) DOL referred few U.S. workers at the wages and working conditions offered; and (4) government welfare and unemployment benefits were not a critical factor, since the potentially employable among those collecting the benefits constituted only a small part of the needed labor force.
Download or read book Farm Labor Supply Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Labor Supply and the H 2A Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation and Business Opportunities and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers written by United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program 1943 47 written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program 1943 47 written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Labor Supply Program Hearings Before 80 1 on H R 1388 February 4 5 and 6 1947 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Labor Supply Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Labor Supply Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers Executive summary of the report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers written by United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H 2A Agricultural Guestworker Program written by United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing to Review the Labor Needs of American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing to Review the Labor Needs of American Agriculture Serial No 110 30 October 4 2007 110 1 Hearing written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Permanent Farm Labor Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of the State in Low wage Labor Supply written by Elizabeth Laird Nisbet and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News stories report frequently on farm labor shortages and the calls of growers for federal government action to bolster supply with immigration policy change. The state role such intervention implies is not unusual, but it raises broader questions about the state's contribution to labor supply through this and other policy mechanisms and about how labor supply, demand, and policy influence one another as they evolve. This dissertation answers these questions with a mixed-method study that describes the policy history and political factors shaping the structure of farm labor markets and traces the presence of policy in labor market processes in New York State. An analysis of National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) data captured trends in worker and job characteristics, showing a significant disparity between wages of undocumented and documented workers. U.S. Department of Labor records indicated that use of the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program increased sharply in New York and the U.S. from 2006 to 2009 and dropped in 2010. A review of the policy structure that shapes farm labor markets highlighted the historical evolution of agricultural exemptions and other industry-specific legislative provisions across labor standards, social programs, and immigration policy that have contributed to labor market segmentation. A review of Congressional hearings showed how interest groups have used this forum to justify reshaping policy, such that political debate serves the symbolic function of communicating to policymakers the parameters grower and worker interests will accept around the state's role in supply and worker protection, and their expectations of the state going forward. Qualitative interviews in New York State with employers, workers, non-profit agencies, and government examined the role of the state in farm labor markets in two regions, demonstrating that social programs and labor standards, immigration enforcement, and the H-2A program work separately and in concert to shape decisions of actors, and thus over time labor supply characteristics and production and employment practices. In implementation, the role of policy in markets takes on different effects and interacts with other factors, demonstrating that markets are partially constructed by the state. The role of the state is to supply (directly or indirectly), sustain and protect labor, and to serve as intermediary, with ever-changing mechanisms and results. In addition, policy can mitigate risk for employers and influence the nature of labor demand. The dissertation concludes with a review of developments in worker advocacy and policy suggestions for moving beyond the seemingly obvious and intractable problems related to farm labor. These issues are also relevant for other kinds of low-wage and contingent labor markets in which recent trends parallel the long history of farm work. The discussion of new developments and policy proposals illustrates that it is possible and important to continue searching for ways to enhance worker agency and conditions for the benefit of the agriculture industry, but also in light of the broader implications of immigration and social policy for job quality and low-wage work.
Download or read book Report of the Commission on Agricultural Workers Hearings and workshops before the Commission on Agricultural Workers 1989 1993 written by United States. Commission on Agricultural Workers and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
