Joseph v. United States Department of Labor

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

This is hopefully the final stage in the drawn-out controversy over the Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s”) attempt to set a prevailing wage for seed cane cutters in the Florida sugar cane industry for the 1990-1991 harvest year. The only remaining issue before the Court is whether a group of over 100 foreign workers should be treated for purposes of DOL’s calculation of the rate on remand as foreign guest workers (H-2A workers), as plaintiffs contend, see 8 U.S.C. § 1188, or as U.S. workers under the provisions relating to Special Agricultural Workers (“SAWs”),…