California’s Minimum Wage is Increasing Again in 2025
Editor's Note: California Farm Bureau has updated Increases in Minimum Wages; Increases in Minimum Salary of Exempt Executive, Administrative, or…
FELS COO Appointed to Workers’ Comp Insurance Rating Bureau Governing Committee
Little receives appointment as an employer representative on the workers' comp insurance rating agency's governance board On August 13, California…
Rare Win for Employers — Knowing and Intentional Wage Statement Defense
Barsamian & Moody May 10, 2024 On May 6, the California Supreme Court gave a rare win to employers when it issued its most recent…
USDA Announces Farmworker Housing Loans and Grants
Recently USDA Rural Development announced two programs related to financing of farmworker housing. The agency has loans available to develop or rehabilitate…
USDOL Publishes 2024 H-2A AEWRs
Bryan Little, Farm Employers Labor Service December 15, 2023 On December 14, the U.S. Department of Labor published 2024 Adverse Effect Wage Rates…
At-Will Employment is a Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, employees in all states but Montana (always bucking the establishment!) were presumed to be employed at-will, absent some sort of…
The Die Hard Survival Guide to This Year’s Holiday Party
While you can debate all you want about whether 1988’s Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is – don’t fight us on this point), you can’t…
