The Forest Resources Association announced that it had joined with other members of the H-2B Workforce Coalition in the decision to bring suit against the U.S. Department of Labor, opposing DOL's implementation of its new guestworker wage rule, scheduled to go into effect on October 1, 2011. FRA argues the rule puts an excessive burden on landowners who will be unable to absorb the costs that wage-increase mandates of up to 163% will place on reforestation.

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