Tim Hearden
Farmworkers harvest lettuce in Watsonville, Calif., in 2019. California Farm Bureau, Idaho dairymen among wide swath of organizations appealing to the Biden administration and Congress.
Western farm organizations are ubiquitous among a wide swath of agriculture, business and human rights groups urging incoming President Joe Biden and Congress to quickly pass comprehensive immigration reform.
The California Farm Bureau Federation, the Idaho Dairymen s Association, the Oregon Association of Nurseries and Western Growers were among more than 180 organizations that issued a joint statement Tuesday calling for reforms.
The groups described immigration laws as “decades overdue for an overhaul” and urged lawmakers to create a “modern, humane and effective immigration system.” Such an overhaul should include a quicker pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamer immigrants, who were brought to the United States as children.
January 20 2021
After a week filled with fascinating and inspiring business pitches from ten of America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, the American Farm Bureau Federation announced the 2021 Ag Innovation Challenge winners. Launched in 2015, the Challenge is the first national business competition focused exclusively on rural entrepreneurs launching food and agriculture businesses, and it continues to focus on strengthening rural America through ag entrepreneurship today.
Right to the punch AFBF was thrilled to announce that the 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year is Harvust , a Washington-based software platform that helps farms with their most valuable resource: their people. From the moment a new employee walks in the door to the moment they are doing productive work, Harvust is making some of the most important HR tasks on a farm like hiring, training and communication simple, fast and organized.
Monday, January 11, 2021
Among the many requirements in the new ETS, Cal OSHA imposed a performance-based obligation on employers to establish and implement an effective COVID-19 Prevention Program, COVID-19 preventive measures (e.g., social distancing and mandatory use of face coverings), and COVID-19 case management (e.g., investigation, recording, and reporting). In establishing these requirements, the ETS also published prescriptive written COVID-19 Prevention Program components and procedures for handling COVID-19 cases, as well as steps to regulate multiple infections and presumed outbreaks at the workplace that are already subject to substantial state and local health department requirements. Moreover, the ETS substantially departs from other health and safety regulations by compelling worker exclusion following a potential workplace exposure to COVID-19, mandating exclusion pay in limited circumstances, and that employees be provided COVID-19 testing. The ETS fur
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At the end of 2020, California approved the Division of Occupational Safety & Health’s (“Cal OSHA”) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). Among the many.