Human Resources
When it comes to turnover, leading experts say a producer shouldn’t just chalk it up that an employee left for more money. Pausing to understand your workforce’s needs can help minimize turnover in the long run.
Despite having a current expiration date of Oct. 31, 2022, employers should continue using the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification until further notice.
Freed up labor needs to be redirected toward cow management to make robot milking successful.
Conflict. Everyone wants to avoid it, but experts say that’s never a good move.
When you hire a new employee, you have two responsibilities: Make sure the employee fills out a W-2 and a form I-9, and then verify, to the best of your knowledge, the identification cards they show you are real.
Your farm will regenerate and reinvent itself to thrive in a changing world. Building commitment and alignment between the family and the business is key to a lasting legacy.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday announced a final rule aimed at improving living conditions for temporary immigrant farmworkers.
Employers, rather than employees, are the primary work-site targets of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Large dairy operations, those with 50 or more employees, will now be required to provide health insurance for their employees and possibly for their families as well.
Security cameras help dairies know what cows, employees and visitors are up to
De lo contrario no se podrá tener leche de buena calidad
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The second edition of “Party-Directed Mediation: Helping Others Resolve Differences” is now online and explains how to deal with conflicts among peers and with disputes between superiors and subordinates.
Overshadowed by the health-care debate, high unemployment and a struggling economy, attempts to overhaul immigration and the guest-worker program have not gone far.
Every morning at 4, Jim and Greg Moes meet in their office at their dairy’s new milking center to plan the day’s activities. It’s quieter then, before feed wagons and skid steers and milk trucks roar through the operation.
California’s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would have given farmworkers overtime pay after eight hours of work in a day and 40 hours in a week.
With today’s largely Hispanic work crews, finding a midlevel manager to lead the team is never easy.
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two dairy farm owners in Michigan Wednesday.
The DREAM Act passed by the House of Representatives yesterday does not contain AgJOBS, which suggests passage of either is unlikely.
“Homeland security begins with hometown security,” Secretary Janet Napolitano says.
DeLaval has introduced its prototype robotic rotary, a 24-stall herringbone configuration that can milk up to 800 cows 2X or 540 cows 3X.
At least three major Arizona agricultural groups aren’t pleased with the new immigration law the state passed last Friday.
Controlling variation requires that employees clearly understand the goals of the dairy.
Vermont’s congressional delegation is sponsoring companion bills to expand a visa program to allow struggling dairy farmers more access to foreign workers.
The installation uses four robotic milkers in sequence to prep and attach milker units.
Johannes and Anthonia Verhaar also face up to six years in prison.
Bill would have enabled unions to bypass elections by urging the majority of a grower’s workers to sign cards.
The solution to the immigrant labor crisis lies in comprehensive immigration reform, California group says.