migrant workers

Crain’s Grand Rapids Business staff writer Mark Sanchez discusses the implementation of an increase in the state’s minimum wage. A coalition of farmers are pushing back on federal wage mandates for migrant workers. How a cut in interest rates could spur the local mergers and acquisitions market.

The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center is fighting a policy that denies injury benefits to undocumented workers. It is specifically claiming its own damages in this case

“Every child should be treated like a child. They deserve to be in school. They deserve to have time with their peers. They deserve to be welcomed in the U.S. and feel like any other child, but not to be forced to work for 12 hours a day and 7 days a week. This is unacceptable," Rose Mayan with Michigan United said.

Hearthside Food Solutions came under fire, after an investigation by the New York Times claimed multiple, underage migrant workers were employed at the company's Grand Rapids-based plant. Hearthside will be conducting an independent review over protocols and staffing agency partners.

A federal judge on Friday refused to block a requirement that Michigan’s migrant farm workers get tested for the coronavirus, rejecting claims that it…

Michigan on Monday ordered coronavirus testing of agricultural and migrant workers, citing nearly a dozen outbreaks at farms and food-processing plants in…

The Kutsche Office of Local History at Grand Valley State University has received an $11,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to…