Limits H-2A farmworker jobs to protect American workers.
This bill would limit H-2A farmworker jobs to 400,000 each year. This aims to protect American farmworkers from losing jobs or seeing lower pay because the program has grown so fast. But jobs for unionized temporary workers would not count toward this limit.
Today, the H-2A temporary worker program has no annual cap, leading to significant growth, with 384,865 certified jobs in the government's budget year 2024. If this bill passes, the Secretary of Labor would be prevented from certifying more than 400,000 H-2A positions each government budget year. However, positions filled by unionized workers would not count towards this limit.
HR 7541 · 119th Congress · February 12, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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