The real advantage that University of California’s ­Gregorio Billikopf sees from labor tracking programs is improvement in productivity by strengthening the quality control and evaluation component. Billikopf, UC farm labor Cooperative Extension advisor based in Stockton, California, said that he frequently receives calls from agricultural employers seeking information about labor tracking and management programs. Billikopf, an advocate of using incentives or piece rates to reward productivity and performance, believes that such programs have value for employers. “With a labor tracking program, instead of seeing a worker’s name, the crew foreman or quality control evaluator sees a number,” he said. By […]