Federal labor standards enforcement in agriculture: Data reveal the biggest violators and raise new questions about how to improve and target efforts to protect farmworkers

Federal labor standards enforcement in agriculture: Data reveal the biggest violators and raise new questions about how to improve and target efforts to protect farmworkers: What this report finds: The vast majority (over 70%) of federal labor standards investigations of farms conducted by the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor detect violations—things like wage theft and inadequate housing, as well as other violations of laws designed to protect farmworkers. Farm labor contractors, the fastest-growing segment…