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News Brief
US Labor Department reaches out to peach farmers before investigations
Who: U.S. Labor Department, Wage and Hour Division
What: “Cultivating Compliance:” outreach events on understanding compliance with federal law for growers, workers, coordinators and others participating in the area’s upcoming peach festival.
When: June 23, 2016
Where: Wagoner County Fairgrounds
Exhibit Hall
30058 E 14th St. South
Coweta, OK 74429
12:30-3:30 p.m. CDT
Stratford Middle School
200 E. Bayless St.
Stratford, OK 74872
9 a.m.-Noon CDT
Background: As the summer peach festival season approaches, investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor and its Wage and Hour Division’s Tulsa Area Office are offering festival coordinators, growers, farm workers and others interested in labor issues in the industry an opportunity to learn about the federal laws that protect the industry’s workers. “Cultivating Compliance” is part of the division’s ongoing education and enforcement initiatives. Division representatives will also be on-hand at the Porter Peach festival on July 15, to provide information and answer questions.
Investigators report training and outreach events like these improve compliance with federal labor laws such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, the labor provisions of the H-2A visa program, and the field sanitation provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
For more information about federal wage laws, or for information about attending a training event, call the Wage and Hour Division’s toll-free helpline at 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243), its Oklahoma City District Office at 405-231-4158, or the Tulsa Area Office at 918-581-6303. Information also is available at http://www.dol.gov/whd/ag/.