Wages for U.S. workers are being kept down by the federal Department of Labor’s method for setting the bar that allows employers to bring in foreign workers, a lawyer for a farmworker-rights organization argued to the Third Circuit late last week.
The department’s acceptance of private wage-rate surveys, which are submitted by employers, in lieu of surveys that determine the prevailing wage rate for a given job that are issued by government agencies depresses the pay rate for all workers, Edward Tuddenham argued.
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