The Dominican Agribusiness Board (JAD) is warning its members that they are obliged to ensure their workers have legal status, and to make the most of the free regularization process being offered by the government under the National Foreigner Legalization Plan. The JAD board, chaired by its president Pedro Brache and executive president Osmar Benitez, along with Minister of Labor Maritza Hernandez, highlighted the importance of foreign labor in farming, especially Haitian labor, and called for producers to ensure their workers adhere to the legalization plan. Benitez described the plan as one of the most advanced and complete in the region, and warned that anyone who does not adhere to be plan and is not legalized by 15 May 2015 would be subject to deportation.
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Asegura productores están obligados a regularizar mano de obra extranjera