A Los Angeles-based labor contractor must pay nearly $300,000 in fines and back wages for allegedly deceiving and underpaying 88 Thai workers it sent to Hawaii to harvest onions and pineapples, the Labor Department said Monday. The workers were brought into the United States on H-2A agricultural visas, which require employers to adhere to minimum rates of pay and to provide transportation, housing, meals and workers' compensation insurance.
See "Contractor Fined Over Treatment of Workers", Nancy Cleeland, Los Angeles Times, May 22, 2006