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Labor Department won back pay for guest farmworkers, but a fifth never reached them
Call now U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division.
Open to anyone, wherever you live.
How to do it
Call WHD's national line and ask that your message go to WHD leadership. Cite GAO-25-106389: 84% of H-2A employer investigations found violations, but roughly 20% of more than $20 million in back wages never reached workers, often because WHD had no contact information for workers who had gone home. Ask WHD to complete GAO's open recommendation by collecting workers' home-country contact details at the start of an investigation and reporting how much back pay is still undistributed.