The Farmworker Unit is a statewide project of Legal Aid of North Carolina committed to providing high quality civil legal services to address the special legal needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina.
We represent individual farmworkers and their families, advising them about their legal rights and helping our clients to get what the law requires, such as the federal hourly minimum wage or sanitation facilities in the field.
In addition to representing individual farmworkers, we:
- Perform extensive outreach and community education to farmworkers about their legal rights;
- Give free presentations to the public, in both small and large group settings, about farmworkers and the law;
- Provide information to both English and Spanish language media to educate the public about current issues affecting farmworkers;
- Invite interested people to join us for outreach to learn more about and connect with farmworkers; and
- Advocate with government agencies for improved enforcement of laws and regulations protecting farmworkers.
Farmworker Unit staff also help low-income taxpayers prepare their income tax returns through the IRS’s Volunteers in Tax Assistance (VITA) program at the office of the North Carolina Farmworkers’ Project in Benson, North Carolina from January to April each year.
- Informing workers about their rights