Top 10 farm labor contractors in California by number of employment law violations detected, fiscal years 2005–2019
| Employer | Number of investigations | Number of violations | Share of violations | Total back wages owed | Share of back wages owed | Total civil money penalties (CMP) assessed | Share of farm labor contractor’s civil monetary penalties assessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cal West Farm Management, Inc. | 2 | 776 | 4.2% | $55,182 | 2.8% | $2,934 | 0.1% |
| Global Horizons Inc. | 3 | 679 | 3.6% | $164,259 | 8.2% | $0 | 0.0% |
| Sunshine Agricultural Services | 2 | 674 | 3.6% | $64,518 | 3.2% | $1,759 | 0.0% |
| Benito Veliz Carrillo dba: E C Labor | 2 | 550 | 2.9% | $10,767 | 0.5% | $3,708 | 0.1% |
| Cruzberto Barajas-Angel | 1 | 540 | 2.9% | $19,611 | 1.0% | $2,905 | 0.1% |
| Esparza Enterprises, Inc | 8 | 494 | 2.6% | $45,657 | 2.3% | $10,731 | 0.3% |
| Juan Luis Ayala Lopez-FLC | 1 | 409 | 2.2% | $23,816 | 1.2% | $4,785 | 0.1% |
| LLamas Ag, Inc. | 1 | 391 | 2.1% | $28,052 | 1.4% | $3,554 | 0.1% |
| Nextcrop | 1 | 384 | 2.1% | $14,635 | 0.7% | $21,464 | 0.6% |
| Cruz Lopez, Domingo Eustacio FLC | 1 | 327 | 1.7% | $8,264 | 0.4% | $1,785 | 0.0% |
| Total (top 10 CA FLC violators) | 22 | 5,224 | 27.9% | $434,763 | 21.7% | $53,625 | 1.4% |
| Total (all CA FLCs) | 853 | 18,691 | 100.0% | $2,006,531 | 100.0% | $3,769,420 | 100.0% |
Notes: Dollar amounts have been adjusted for inflation to 2019 constant dollar amounts using the CPI-U-RS. These figures were generated using the statistical software program Stata. The software code and source data files are available upon request.
Source: Authors' analysis of U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Compliance Action Data (U.S. DOL-WHD 2020f).