Agriculture

Champ’s Fresh Farms did not breach minimum wage rules for piece-rate mushroom pickers by using grade-based rates, some below the minimum, because no worker was paid less than the minimum …

A B.C. farm that ignored months of emails, a formal records demand and an investigation report has lost its appeal of an order to pay a former farm worker more …

A former produce driver who claimed unpaid overtime against a Nova Scotia blueberry and strawberry farm has lost his appeal, after the Nova Scotia Labour Board found he was an …

A British Columbia Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a poultry plant worker who continued working for nearly four hours after learning his roommate had tested positive for… …

A U.S. federal judge has granted final approval of a landmark settlement worth more than $398 million (all figures U.S.) against 18 of America’s leading poultry producers, ending a class …

An Ontario employer has failed to exempt three farm workers from employment standards protections after conceding at a hearing that their work was not directly related to the primary production …

The Federal Court has dismissed a judicial review application from an Indian citizen whose work permit application to work as a berry picker in British Columbia was denied due to …

A Leamington-based mushroom producer has been fined $115,000 after a worker was critically injured at its Kingsville facility, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development said. The incident …

The Court of Appeal for Ontario is set to examine whether certain provisions under a farm-protection regulation go too far in curbing free expression on agricultural premises, after an application …

By J.P. Antonacci | The Hamilton Spectator Three years after a farm worker was killed in a Norfolk County ginseng field, charges against the farm’s owners and a supervisor have been dropped. Norfolk County OPP said the …