UCCE San Diego
Ag Labor Management Program
2024 - 2025 Series
The UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego is developing the Ag Labor Management Education Program to help agricultural employers mitigate labor related risks. Labor related issues are becoming a major threat for Agricultural businesses across California, regardless of size or number of employees. Each year brings new laws and regulatory requirements for ag employers and each new requirement creates potential for fines, lawsuits, and additional confusion for employers and field supervisors tasked with implementation. Ag employers and their supervisory staff must remain informed of these requirements to protect workers, their operations and their assets.
The Ag Labor Management Education Program will help agricultural employers, HR managers and their field supervisors to better understand and comply with numerous requirements using a two-tier approach that includes a series of seminars and workshops as described below:
Ag Employer Seminars: Three seminar will be offered in English by labor experts including attorneys and enforcement agency representatives to provide updates and guidance on key issues impacting agricultural labor. Topics include wage and hour; union card-check elections; new worker health and safety requirements; paid leaves of absence; requirements and best practices for H2A Visa workers, and a range of other potential issues and liabilities.
Ag Labor Supervisor Workshops: Five training workshops will be offered in Spanish by highly experienced bilingual instructors to help supervisors learn about their critical roles and how to better manage and communicate with employers and workers. Supervisors will learn to implement required policies and procedures to foster employee retention and more effectively prevent and manage work injuries, harassment claims, union interventions, and wage and hour issues.
More Information (English | Spanish)
Sponsors & Exhibitors
We invite you to be a part of this effort and sponsor this valuable education program to help ag businesses across California comply with labor laws and regulations. Your financial support will help provide these programs at a minimum cost to participants and allow us to offer them in additional locations across the state.
Additionally, your sponsorship of the Ag Labor Management Education Program is a way to put information about your company or organization's products and services in the hands of event attendees. All sponsors receive free registration and well as recognition throughout the training series.
For opportunities to become a sponsor or exhibitor at this event, please download and complete the Sponsor or Exhibitor form or contact Darlene Ruiz at druiz@ucanr.edu.
Current Sponsors
Thank You to our Current Sponsors and Funders!
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Funding for this project is provided by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Western Center for Risk Management Education.
