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Living Wages

Living Wages


Strategies to get fair compensation for workers and owners

As part of my technical assistance role at the Agricultural Justice Project, I frequently coach farmers on how to achieve living wages and fair working conditions, both for their employees and for themselves. Implementing fair working conditions seems easier than fair wages, not least because many policy changes don’t come with direct costs, and employees themselves can help with the managerial burden of planning and training. Many fair practices also hold out the promise of improving the bottom line over the medium to long term, as I describe below.