Top 10 agricultural employers 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 FLC CMPs assessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perdue Foods, Inc. | 1 | 20,002 | 7.4% | $0 | 0.0% | $0 | 0.0% |
| George’s Processing, Incorporated | 1 | 3,148 | 1.2% | $1,582,914 | 2.5% | $0 | 0.0% |
| Symms Fruit Farm, Inc. | 1 | 3,001 | 1.1% | $0 | 0.0% | $0 | 0.0% |
| Sierra Cascade Nursery, Inc | 2 | 2,706 | 1.0% | $367,546 | 0.6% | $722,414 | 1.4% |
| Global Horizons Inc. | 9 | 1,778 | 0.7% | $164,259 | 0.3% | $0 | 0.0% |
| Urenda’s Farm and Forest Contractors, Inc. | 2 | 1,645 | 0.6% | $0 | 0.0% | $2,789 | 0.0% |
| B & G Ditchen, LLC | 1 | 1,625 | 0.6% | $192,961 | 0.3% | $14,511 | 0.0% |
| Blue Mountain Farms, LLC | 1 | 1,590 | 0.6% | $184,900 | 0.3% | $0 | 0.0% |
| Western Range Association | 13 | 1,574 | 0.6% | $311,798 | 0.5% | $142,775 | 0.3% |
| A. Oseguera Company, Inc | 7 | 1,554 | 0.6% | $353,951 | 0.6% | $860,530 | 1.6% |
| Total (top 10 violators in ag) | 38 | 38,623 | 14.4% | $3,158,329 | 5.0% | $1,743,019 | 3.3% |
| Total (all ag employers) | 19,253 | 269,137 | 100.0% | $62,653,976 | 100.0% | $53,471,864 | 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).