US to pay $6.5 million in lost wages owed to Mexican migrant workers

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Some 13,000 Mexican migrant staff are owed $6.5 million in unpaid wages, in accordance with a tweet from the USA Division of Labor’s Bureau of Worldwide Labor Affairs, which introduced a joint effort with Mexico to find and compensate the employees.

“This program will return tens of millions of {dollars} in again wages to Mexican nationals who participated in US non permanent overseas employee packages,” tweeted Ken Salazar, the USA Ambassador to Mexico, on Tuesday.

The Mexican ministry and the USA Division of Labor’s Bureau of Worldwide Labor Affairs is launching the H-2A Staff’ Wages Restoration Program to make sure the employees can accumulate their compensation, Salazar added.

Expert overseas farm staff are the spine of US agriculture and are sometimes within the US on H-2A seasonal visas. It’s unclear who these staff have been employed by once they did not obtain their full wages, and what years they have been employed.

The cash owed to those 1000’s of staff was recovered by the US Division of Labor after it did not find the people with a view to ship their checks, in accordance with a press launch from Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

The partnership will try to find the migrant staff who’re believed to have “acquired lower than the legally established wage from their employers in the USA,” in accordance with a press launch by Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.

The US is anticipated to ship Mexico a listing with names of staff who’re “owed wages and extra time.” Mexico will then lookup the employees in authorities databases and inform them of their checks.

“Collectively, we watch over labor rights,” tweeted Luisa Alcalde, Mexico’s Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, on Tuesday.