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February 12, 2010

Labor Dept. Reverses Bush-Era Farmworker Regulations
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The Labor Department has unveiled new regulations it says will increase
wages and labor protections for American and temporary immigrant farm
workers. The new rules restore several provisions revoked in the waning
days of the Bush administration, including a new method for calculating
farm workers’ wages. The Labor Department says the Bush-era rules ended
up reducing the wages by an average one dollar an hour for the year they
were in effect.