H-2B Workers File FLSA Claims

A group of landscape workers have filed a lawsuit against their employer saying the employer did not reimburse them for travel expenses and for the costs of obtaining H-2B visas.

Workers on H-2B visas who were recruited for a landscape services company by third-party recruiters, but not reimbursed for the recruitment, visa and transportation costs they incurred to accept employment, were allowed to proceed with their lawsuit for reimbursement under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

The lawsuit was filed by landscape workers brought into the United States by a recruiter used by the employer, a large landscaping company. These workers claimed that the company failed to reimburse all workers' travel expenses to get to and from the job as required with the employees?EUR??,,????'?????<