From the Labor Department file
What is on record for Ruiz Harvesting, Inc.
- Name on the record
- Ruiz Harvesting, Inc.
- Also recorded as
- Basilio Ruiz, FLC, Ruiz, Basiliso (FLC), Ruiz Harvesting, Inc.-H2ALC, Ruiz Harvesting (H2ALC)
- Location on the record
- Okeechobee, Florida
- County
- Okeechobee County
- Industry
- Farm Labor Contractors and Crew Leaders; Fruit and Tree Nut Farming
- Cases
- 12 closed, 11 with a violation found, 1 with none
- Back wages agreed to pay
- $44,151
- Workers due back wages
- 202
- Civil money penalties assessed
- $24,031
- Violations recorded
- 397
- First and latest case
- 2004 to 2023
- Repeat or willful flags
- None on the record
Every investigation
Every case on the record, newest first
| Investigation | Laws | Violations | Back wages | Workers | Penalties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 to November 2023 | MSPA | 4 | $0 | 0 | $3,961 |
| December 2020 to December 2022 | H-2A, OSHA housing | 30 | $3,574 | 21 | $8,180 |
| April 2021 to September 2022 | H-2A | 228 | $21,015 | 123 | $2,045 |
| July 2019 to September 2019 | H-2A, MSPA | 2 | $0 | 0 | $1,589 |
| April 2018 to June 2019 | H-2A | 3 | $79 | 1 | $0 |
| November 2018 to January 2019 | H-2A | 2 | $0 | 0 | $1,041 |
| April 2017 to June 2017 | FLSA, H-2A, MSPA | 7 | $0 | 0 | $2,984 |
| July 2016 to September 2016 | H-2A | 66 | $19,483 | 57 | $4,230 |
| December 2015 to January 2016 | H-2A | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2013 to February 2014 | MSPA | 1 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| October 2009 to January 2010 | H-2A, MSPA, OSHA housing | 53 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
| November 2004 to December 2004 | none recorded | 0 | $0 | 0 | $0 |
Investigation dates are the findings period the Department recorded, newest first. A zero is a zero in the file: a case can find a violation and agree no back wages.
By law
Laws involved and what each case found
- H-2A agricultural visa program: 9 cases, $44,151 in back wages, $20,070 in penalties
- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act: 5 cases, $0 in back wages, $3,961 in penalties
- OSHA field sanitation and housing: 2 cases, $0 in back wages
- Fair Labor Standards Act: 1 case, $0 in back wages
Plain words
What this record means and what it does not
The Wage and Hour Division enforces the federal minimum wage, overtime, child labor, family leave and the wage rules on federal contracts and visa programs. Each row above is one investigation the Division closed; of the 12 on this record, 11 ended with a violation found and 1 with none.
Back wages agreed is the amount the employer agreed to pay the workers the Division found were owed, computed at the federal rates: a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and overtime after 40 hours in a week. Where Florida has a higher state or local minimum, the same hours would come to more under state law, and that part is not in this file.
Civil money penalties are amounts the Division assessed against the employer, separate from back wages; the file records the assessment, not what was finally paid.
This record is federal only. It does not include claims filed with the state labor office, private lawsuits or settlements, so an employer absent from it is not an employer with a clean record, and an employer on it has not been found guilty of anything by a court. Names are written as the Department recorded them, so one business can appear under more than one legal name, and a franchise or branch can sit under its own.
If you are owed wages
Where to file a wage claim in Florida
Florida has no state wage claim process of its own, so an unpaid wage or overtime complaint goes to the federal Division: how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division explains what to send and where. The Division also keeps a search of back wages owed to workers it collected and could not deliver.
Around this employer
Nearby employers and related pages
Other employers on the record in Okeechobee, by back wages:
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cabbage Harvesting, LLC | 6 | $85,061 | 85 |
| Palmdale Oil Company, Inc. | 1 | $69,456 | 10 |
| McArthur Farms, Inc. | 1 | $44,377 | 91 |
| Jnz Hotels. LLC | 1 | $22,332 | 6 |
| Samy Aguilar Harvesting | 1 | $17,967 | 21 |
| Guardianship of Brenda Lefebvre | 1 | $17,722 | 4 |
| El Nano Harvesting LLC | 2 | $9,445 | 38 |
| Okee-Tantie Title Company, Incorporated | 1 | $7,265 | 25 |
| Laxmi Pooja #2 LLC | 2 | $4,016 | 13 |
| Rio Harvesting Corporation | 2 | $932 | 25 |
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Sources
Where this record comes from
The record comes from the Wage and Hour Division compliance action data published by the U.S. Department of Labor, every concluded investigation since fiscal 2005, snapshot dated April 22, 2026 and read for this page on November 5, 2026. The Wage and Hour Division is the office that made the findings. Figures are printed as the file carries them, a zero included; an investigation with no end date is shown by its start; the county is the one the Census Bureau puts the employer's ZIP code in.
Disclaimer. The wage and hour information here is for general information only. It comes from the Labor Department's closed case file as the Department publishes it, which can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and a case on this record is not a court judgment and not an admission by the employer. Check with the Wage and Hour Division before you rely on it. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.