Resources

Factsheet on the “Fairness for Farm Workers Act”, which would end the discriminatory denial of overtime pay and most remaining … Read more The Fairness for Farm Workers Act: It’s Time to End Discrimination against Farmworkers

Book chapter written by Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein, included in an International Labor Organization (ILO) publication entitled “Merchants of … Read more Merchants of Labour in Three Centuries: Lessons from History for Reforming 21st Century Exploitation of Migrant Labour

This report offers a sampling of stories from both U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents on farms. Although a majority … Read more Who Works the Fields? The Stories of Americans Who Feed Us

Report by Farmworker Justice and the National Employment Law Project (NELP) on the use of labor subcontracting and abuses that … Read more From Orchards to the Internet: Confronting Contingent Work Abuses

1999 UCLA law review article on joint employer liability.  

In 1983, Congress passed the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA). To mark the thirtieth anniversary of its … Read more Unfinished Harvest: The Agricultural Worker Protection Act at 30

Farmworker Justice's analysis of H.R. 1387, introduced in March 2013 by Rep. Schroder (D-OR), to exempt certain perishable agricultural commodities from … Read more Fact Sheet on Proposal to Exempt Agriculture from “Hot Goods” Protection

This fact sheet explains the importance of the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) protection against “hot goods,” which makes it … Read more Fact Sheet on FLSA’s “Hot Goods” Provision

This 2015 report analyzes the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) statistics on its enforcement of the minimum wage and other basic labor … Read more U.S. Department of Labor Enforcement in Agriculture: More Must be Done to Protect Farmworkers