November 04, 2022
A Washington federal judge resisted fruit harvesters' demand to force state and federal officials to abandon a 2021 survey used to set their wages, saying it wasn't flawed like the 2019 survey previously invalidated by the court.
March 03, 2021
The Labor Department "abdicated [its] duty to protect the wages of domestic workers" by using "flawed" data to approve agricultural wage rates, a Washington federal judge has said, ordering the agency to immediately reset the rates to prevent further damage to workers' livelihoods.