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Book Synopsis The H-2A Program by : United States. General Accounting Office
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.
Author :United States Government Accountability Office Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781983707780 Total Pages :50 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (77 download)
Book Synopsis H-2a Visa Program by : United States Government Accountability Office
Download or read book H-2a Visa Program written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H-2A Visa Program: Modernization and Improved Guidance Could Reduce Employer Application Burden
Book Synopsis Consolidation of Labor's Enforcement Responsibilities for the H-2A Program Could Better Protect U.S. Agricultural Workers by :
Download or read book Consolidation of Labor's Enforcement Responsibilities for the H-2A Program Could Better Protect U.S. Agricultural Workers written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Guestworkers by : David Griffith
Download or read book American Guestworkers written by David Griffith and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of research, Griffith studied rural labor processes and their national and international effects. In this book, he examines the socioeconomic effects of the H-2 program on both the areas where the laborers work and the areas they are from, and, taking a uniquely humanitarian stance, he considers the effects of the program on the laborers themselves.
Book Synopsis An Analysis of the H-2a Agricultural Guest Worker Program and Recommendations for Future Policy by : Paulina M. Irigaray
Download or read book An Analysis of the H-2a Agricultural Guest Worker Program and Recommendations for Future Policy written by Paulina M. Irigaray and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the people who make up the United States' seasonal agricultural workforce are nonimmigrant Mexican citizens. Immigration policies such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) and the H-2A agricultural guest worker program were meant to encourage growers to employ legal labor workforces. A study of the laws and practices that eventually resulted in the H-2A program shows how and why the demographics are predominantly Mexican. In addition, such study is revealing as to why the US enacted the H-2A program-including definitional details of the program itself. However, does this program really work? This question has radically different answers. In theory, the program seems to be well designed; but, in practice, it does not function as intended because of its many shortcomings, loopholes, open-ended issues, and poor enforcement. I will analyze and demonstrate how these inadequacies perpetuate illegal immigration and exploitation of both legal and illegal seasonal agricultural farm workers. Lastly, I will offer a composite of recommendations for legislative reform of the H-2A program; as well as provide pertinent, resourceful questions for further research.
Book Synopsis H-2a Visa Program by : U.s. Government Accountability Office
Download or read book H-2a Visa Program written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The H-2A visa program allows U.S. employers anticipating a shortage of domestic agricultural workers to hire foreign workers on a temporary basis. State workforce agencies and three federal agencies-the Departments of Labor, Homeland Security, and State review applications for such workers. GAO was asked to examine (1) any aspects of the application process that present challenges to agricultural employers, and (2) how federal agencies have addressed any employer challenges with the application process. GAO analyzed Labor and DHS data; interviewed agency officials and employer representatives; and conducted site visits in New York, North Carolina, and Washington. "
Book Synopsis H-2 A Agricultural Guestworker Program by : Carolyn S. Blocker
Download or read book H-2 A Agricultural Guestworker Program written by Carolyn S. Blocker and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 created the "H-2A" program, under which employers may bring workers into this country on a temporary, nonimmigrant basis to perform seasonal agricultural work when domestic workers are unavailable. This report presents information on the likelihood of a widespread agricultural labor shortage and its impact on the need for nonimmigrant guestworker and the H-2A program's ability to meet the needs of agricultural employers while protecting domestic and foreign agricultural workers, both at present and if a significant number of nonimmigrant guestworkers is needed in the future.
Book Synopsis The Human Cost of Food by : Charles D. Thompson
Download or read book The Human Cost of Food written by Charles D. Thompson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding fresh fruits and vegetables is as easy as going to the grocery store for most Americans—which makes it all too easy to forget that our food is cultivated, harvested, and packaged by farmworkers who labor for less pay, fewer benefits, and under more dangerous conditions than workers in almost any other sector of the U.S. economy. Seeking to end the public's ignorance and improve workers' living and working conditions, this book addresses the major factors that affect farmworkers' lives while offering practical strategies for action on farmworker issues. The contributors to this book are all farmworker advocates—student and community activists and farmworkers themselves. Focusing on workers in the Southeast United States, a previously understudied region, they cover a range of issues, from labor organizing, to the rise of agribusiness, to current health, educational, and legal challenges faced by farmworkers. The authors blend coverage of each issue with practical suggestions for working with farmworkers and other advocates to achieve justice in our food system both regionally and nationally.
Book Synopsis The H-2A Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book The H-2A Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis H-2A Visa Program by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement
Download or read book H-2A Visa Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program by : United States. General Accounting Office
Download or read book H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program by : Carlotta C. Joyner
Download or read book H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program written by Carlotta C. Joyner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The H-2A Program by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book The H-2A Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Merchants of Labor by : Philip Martin
Download or read book Merchants of Labor written by Philip Martin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect from migrant workers and what can be done to reduce worker-paid migration costs. For-profit recruiters are likely to be an enduring feature of international labor migration, which makes developing tools to improve the management of their activities ever more crucial. The UN recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 the need to measure what workers pay to get jobs in other countries with the goal of reducing worker-paid costs so that workers and their families can benefit more from international labor migration. Using cost data from over 3,000 workers, Merchants of Labor examines the often murky world of labor brokers, travel agents, and others who move low-skilled workers from one country to another in order to explore lower worker-paid migration costs. It explains the three core functions of labor markets-- recruitment, remuneration, and retention-- and shows how national borders increase recruitment costs. New data on what workers pay to get jobs in other countries are presented, and incentives to complement enforcement are explored as a way to induce recruiters to protect migrant workers.
Book Synopsis H-2A Visa Program by : United States House of Representatives
Download or read book H-2A Visa Program written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H-2A visa program: meeting the growing needs of American agriculture?: hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, April 13, 2011.
Author :United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :24 pages Book Rating :4.E/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program by : United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division
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:
Book Synopsis Grounds for Dreaming by : Lori A. Flores
Download or read book Grounds for Dreaming written by Lori A. Flores and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
