Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Monday sent a letter to President Biden’s pick for Labor Secretary that slammed her department’s “start…
President Biden’s nominee for the position of labor secretary has come under more fire from Republican senators after one of her underlings disparaged American farmers as “traffickers” and accused them of “wage theft.”
Cassidy — the top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — and Sen. Tedd Budd told Su they found Rios’ remarks “troubling.” Cassidy and Budd further stressed that if Rios’ comments were accurate, Su was either neglecting her duties — or exhibiting a “startling bias against American farmers.”Getty Images
Federal law requires farmers to pay H-2A workers “a wage that is at least the highest of” the Adverse Effect Wage Rate, meaning foreign laborers earn no less than US agricultural workers, Cassidy and Budd noted.
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