July 26, 2017
A Florida federal judge has ruled that a strawberry farm did not violate the minimum wage provisions of federal labor law by failing to reimburse temporary workers from Honduras for recruitment fees collected by a staffing agency, saying they lacked evidence showing that the farm authorized the agency to collect the fees.
November 19, 2015
Honduran guest laborers who picked strawberries at a Florida farm have sued their former employer under the Fair Labor Standards Act for failing to stop a foreign labor contractor from demanding exorbitant recruitment and hiring fees.