SMRLS - Agricultural Worker Program

The AWP provides free legal advice, brief services, and full representation in civil legal cases to low-income agricultural workers from all counties in Minnesota and North Dakota.  Examples of agricultural work include:

• Field work
• Nursery work
• Cannery work
• Greenhouse work
• Livestock work
• Forestry work
• Beekeeping
• Work under an H-2A visa

The cases that we normally take include:

• Wage theft
• Unsafe working conditions
• Problems with employer-provided housing
• Employment discrimination/retaliation
• Violations of migrant & H-2A contracts
• Problems with farm laborer contractors
• Issues with recruitment
• Labor trafficking (T visas)
• Expedited food stamp problems
• Unemployment insurance denials
• Renewal of green cards

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We speak English and Spanish and have interpreters available in other languages. We have appointments available in the evening by request.