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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....
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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...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
August 30, 2019 - Every year hundreds of thousands of H-2A migrant agricultural workers travel to the United States from their home communities, most of them in Mexico. The program, which is structurally flawed, has tripled in size in the last...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Individuals who rented a room at a Motel 6 in the state of Washington between 2015 and 2017 may be eligible to participate in a financial settlement to compensate them for discrimination and privacy violations. Employees at seven Motel 6...
October 17, 2022 | 0 comments
Heat stroke is a severe, but completely preventable, disease that can result in death. This disease happens when someone spends too much time in the sun in very strong heat. Each year, about 600 people in the United States die of heat stroke. It...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
The J-1 Exchange Visitor Program was created by the Department of State (DOS) in 1961 to enhance diplomacy and foster cultural exchange. It now consists of 14 different programs employing hundreds of thousands of workers in a range of...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Oliver Benzon, a former worker in the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa program, shares his experiences in order to demonstrate the serious need to regulate the recruitment of J-1 workers to protect against fraud, discrimination, and...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
A new report released today, “ Shining a Light on Summer Work: A First Look at the Employers Using the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa ,” reveals the realities of the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa program (SWT) -- that it can be...
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