Provide Health Insurance To Migrant Workers

Hispanic advocates and legislators in Minnesota have come across an "obscure state law Family Health Insurance" that requires certain employers to provide health insurance to migrant workers, but the law never has been enforced Family Health Insurance, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.

Family Health Insurance the state Legislature passed a law requiring employers with five or more migrant workers to provide them with health insurance. However,Family Health Insurance no rules have been written for the law,

Bobbi Ryder, CEO of Texas-based National Center for Farmworker Health, said she is unaware of any state that requires employers to pay for migrant workers' health insurance. She asked Family Health Insurance, "Does Minnesota have the same law for workers in all industries? If it does, of course migrant workers should be covered (by such a law). If it doesn't, Family Health Insurance the law seems lopsided," adding, "There are many other workers who don't have health insurance either."