Fact Sheet

Fact sheet: Legislation Would Provide Worker Protections from Heat Stress

The “Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act” mandates OSHA to adopt a standard to protect outdoor workers from the dangers of excessive heat exposure.

The Fairness for Farm Workers Act: It’s Time to End Discrimination against Farmworkers

Factsheet on the “Fairness for Farm Workers Act”, which would end the discriminatory denial of overtime pay and most remaining minimum wage exemptions for farmworkers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Fact sheet: Rampant Violations of Workers’ Rights Reveal Flaws of H-2A Visa Program

Fact sheet describing frequent violations of workers’ rights and the need for reform in the H-2A visa program.

Fact sheet: National Agricultural Workers Survey 2019-2020: Selected Statistics (June 2022)

Fact sheet summarizing key findings from the recently released 2019-20 results of the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS).

Fact Sheets on the Affordable Care Act

Series of fact sheets on the Affordable Care Act in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole. Developed with the Rural Women’s Health Project.

Video fact sheets in Mam and Mixteco Alto can be found on our YouTube channel.

Fact sheet: Virginia Passes Final COVID-19 Workplace Safety Standard

This fact sheet discusses Virginia’s final and permanent standard to protect workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Farm Workforce Modernization Act Fact Sheet (Updated July 2021)

Fact sheet on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 (FWMA), HR 1603, bipartisan immigration legislation that would provide undocumented farmworkers and their family members with a path to legal immigration status and citizenship, revise the H-2A agricultural guestworker program to address some employer and worker concerns, and impose mandatory employment verification (“E-verify”) in agriculture.