Adverse Effect Wage Rate – Farm Labor

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-03-16 — Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Protection Act of 2026: cross-connection with grocery-farm-food-worker-disaster-grants: Both address farmworker compensation policy — AEWR sets baseline wages for H-2A farm labor while S4101 would create a new AMS-funded disaster stabilization payment channel routed through unions/membership organizations. (novelty: 3)
2026-03-26 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to the Adverse Effect Wage Rate.: H.J.Res. 154 introduced as a Congressional Review Act joint resolution to disapprove the Department of Labor’s rule on the Adverse Effect Wage Rate; if enacted, would nullify the rule and bar substantially similar rules absent new authorization, with implications for H-2A wage floors, farmer labor costs, and farmworker earnings. (novelty: 2)