A GAO study found that DOL missed statutory deadlines in at least 40 percent of the cases. Solution: Farmers do not have to wait for DOL. If the DOL does not either meet the deadline or issue a specific objection. then the INS is authorized to go ahead and issue visas for migrant workers. Problem: Farmers have to spend hundreds of dollars advertising in the newspaper or on the radio to prove what they already knowthat is. there is a shortage of domestic workers who will labor in the fields. Solution: Farmers will not be required to engage in costly radio and newspaper advertising. but may recruit domestic workers by simply using the existing DOL job bank for available domestic workers. DOL will match domestic workers with jobs. Problem: Farmers are required to pay wages that are often higher than both the minimum wage and the prevailing wage because the legal wage is calculated based on wages paid for all farming jobs. not the specific job in which the migrant worker employed. Solution: Farmers would not have to pay exorbitant wages to migrant farm workers. They would be required to pay wages only up to the prevailing wage for the type of occupation in which the grower is actually employed. The wage would not be based on the wages earned by all persons in all farming jobs.
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