One of the biggest of the many problems with the H-2A foreign guest-worker program, from the grower’s point of view, is the inability of the Department of Labor to clearly provide answers to questions about the rules, says Dan Fazio, director of the Washington Farm Labor Association. Two agencies within the department are involved with the H-2A program: the Education Training Administration, which administers the labor certification, and the Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration, which enforces worker contracts. Fazio said the two do not communicate with each other, and, in some cases, the Wage and Hour […]