Florida business pays $65,000 after violations of pay, U.S. applicants and a visa program

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David J. Neal
,Miami Herald•July 6, 2020


An Ocala horse training company has paid $65,807 after myriad labor violations of U.S. applicants and H-2B visa workers, the Department of Labor announced.

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H-2B visa workers aren’t immigrants, but brought into the U.S. for temporary, nonagricutlural work.

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Eddie Woods Stables advertised the stable attendant job to potential U.S. applicants as a 40-hour a week job, knowing the attendant would be expected to work 48 hours a week.

▪ Job advertisements to U.S. workers stated a lower wage rate than was actually paid to H-2B visa workers. Doing so “could produce a chilling effect on the number of U.S. applicants,” Labor said.

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