September 17, 2015
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a Colorado federal court Wednesday to deny a preliminary injunction bid by a worker advocacy organization seeking to stop the department from certifying more H-2A applications for sheepherders at a certain rate, saying the challenged regulations have already been remanded by another court.
August 19, 2015
The U.S. Department of Labor's policies for calculating a wage floor for sheepherders in the H-2A visa program have led to the exclusion of nearly all U.S. workers from the industry's labor force, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in Colorado federal court.