Insights and Stories on Farm Workers

Farmworkers in the US cultivate their own heat safety standards

Jul. 8, 2024 at 9:47 am CDT

While regulations to protect agricultural workers from the heat have been held up by political wrangling, Gonzalo and her colleagues have spearheaded an alternate strategy. They seek to sidestep the slow and increasingly politicized government machinery and instead appeal directly to consumers and large brands.

Feds plan to ease Underused Housing Tax reporting load

Nov. 24, 2023 at 1:01 pm CST

By Dave Bedard

Survey to look at farm stress from Alberta angle

Jun. 6, 2023 at 4:26 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Ontario police charge seven with trafficking, exploiting migrants

Mar. 3, 2023 at 1:21 pm CST

By Anna Mehler Paperny

Suspect in California farm worker shootings appears in court

Jan. 25, 2023 at 5:29 pm CST

By Jorge Garcia

Audit finds Canada failing migrant farmworkers on COVID-19, housing inspections

Dec. 9, 2021 at 4:45 pm CST

Toronto | Reuters — As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, federal government inspectors frequently deemed the employers of migrant workers compliant with health and safety rules despite a lack of evidence, according to an Auditor General report released Thursday. While Canadian provinces and territories set housing standards, the federal government is […]

By Anna Mehler Paperny

Quebec to reduce onus for farm workers seeking workers’ comp for Parkinson’s

Mar. 31, 2021 at 3:59 am CDT

Some Quebec farmers and farm workers with Parkinson’s disease may soon have an easier path to seek workers’ compensation — if they can show at least a certain amount of exposure to pesticides. Provincial Labour Minister Jean Boulet on Tuesday tabled an amendment to bill 59, draft legislation that includes […]

By Dave Bedard

Peru farm protests grip country, turn deadly

Dec. 3, 2020 at 4:19 pm CST

Lima | Reuters — Protests by farm workers demanding better wages in Peru raged on for a fourth day Thursday, spreading north into key agricultural areas of the Andean nation, derailing harvests of some crops, snarling transport of produce and leaving at least one dead. Peruvian interim President Francisco Sagasti […]

By Maria Cervantes

Federal program to protect farms, workers from COVID-19 underway

Oct. 5, 2020 at 3:24 pm CDT

Applications are now open for a federally-administered $35 million emergency on-farm support fund to help limit the impacts of COVID-19 on farms and on-farm workers. Aimed at farm workplaces and employee living quarters, the fund is being managed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), but cost-shared with participating producers at […]

By D.C. Fraser

Chinese researchers warn of new virus in pigs with human pandemic risk

Jun. 30, 2020 at 1:55 am CDT

Shanghai | Reuters — A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential “pandemic virus,” a study said, although experts said there is no imminent threat. A team of Chinese researchers looked at […]

By Reuters

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