March 04, 2024
A certified class of migrant sugarcane farmworkers under the H-2A visa program asked an Arkansas federal judge to partly rule in their favor in a wage dispute set for an April jury trial, saying payroll records indicate the farm labor contractor shorted them $410,089 and that the owner should be held liable.
August 07, 2020
Migrant farmworkers filed a proposed class action against a farm labor contractor in Arkansas federal court Thursday, alleging they came to the U.S. on temporary work visas from Mexico only to be the victims of pervasive wage theft while planting sugar cane throughout Louisiana.