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October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Written by Alianza Nacional de Campesinas ----- One rainy morning in February, Elvira Carvajal finds herself surrounded by crops in the Florida fields where she labored intensively for years as a farmworker. Today, she...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
This Valentine's Day, when buying flowers for our loved ones, we should take a minute to consider the workers that grew them. Were they paid the minimum wage? Was their workplace safe? Sylvana Jacome is one of these workers...
January 31, 2020 | 0 comments
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). January is a trafficking awareness month, which was established to educate the public about the signs of human...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
On December 16, 2019, the following review appeared on www.contratados.org with a warning about the recruitment agency Ponz y Asociados . The review says “Martines y asociados or Ponzs y asociados The name of the person is Daniela...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Beware of job offers for an H-1B visa with an engineering and construction company in Birmingham, Alabama, with the following characteristics: 1) The recruiter tells workers that there are jobs with a construction...
October 11, 2022 | 0 comments
Did you know that Latina women have to work an average of 23 months to earn the same as a white, non-Hispanic man earns in a year? The wage gap that exists by gender unfairly limits the potential of Latinas and the success of their jobs and their...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Today, Latina Equal Pay Day -- the day when Latina pay catches up to that of white, non-Hispanic men from the previous year, Latinas and allies are uniting across to demand #LatinaEqualPay. Pay disparities hurt Latina women, their...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
When the Trump Administration terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in September 2017, life changed for those who have been recipients of the program for the last five years. On November 12th, the U.S....
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
The Department of Labor has collected monetary damages from two employers in Michigan - New Perspective Farms and Labor Solutions of Michigan. If your or someone you know worked for either of these employers in 2016 as an H-2A worker or...
October 17, 2022 | 0 comments
Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, 22 workers hired on H-2B visas and two U.S. workers have won $70,000 from their employer for workers’ rights violations. The employer, Juan Vizcaino, doing business as...
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