RBC I In mid-April, the U.S. Department of Labor released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking titled “Temporary Agricultural Employment of H-2A Foreign Workers in the Herding or Production of Livestock On the Open Range in the United States.”
The H-2A program, which brought in more than 65,000 temporary workers in 2012, allows foreign workers, often from South America, seasonal agricultural work in the country.
The proposed changes in the program present a large shift in…