Judy Cooper hired temporary foreign workers to help out at her Flat Top Mountain fruit and vegetable farm for three years, and this year she received a break on their wages because of a regulation from the closing days of the Bush administration.
But starting today the U.S. Department of Labor will suspend the regulation for nine months so officials can re-examine the federal H-2A program, which allows U.S. agricultural employers to hire foreign workers.
The Bush regulation, which went into effect Jan. 17, reduced the required hourly wage paid to foreign workers.
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