Adverse Effect Wage Rate (DOL)

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-08-31 — Rescission of Coordinated Enforcement Regulations: cross-connection with migrant-seasonal-farmworker-enforcement: Both concern DOL’s regulatory footprint over farmworker protections; changes to internal enforcement coordination sit alongside the wage-rate regime governing farm labor. (novelty: 2)
2026-03-16 — Grocery, Farm, and Food Worker Protection Act of 2026: cross-connection with grocery-farm-food-worker-disaster-grants: Farmworker wage/benefit landscape: AEWR sets baseline H-2A wages while S4101 would add disaster stabilization payments through unions/membership groups. (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 (119th Congress) introduced as a Congressional Review Act joint resolution to disapprove the DOL rule setting the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H-2A agricultural guestworkers; if enacted, the rule would be nullified and DOL barred from issuing a substantially similar rule without new congressional authorization. (novelty: 2)