From the Labor Department file

What is on record for Fresh-Veg Harvesting

Name on the record: Fresh-Veg Harvesting
Also recorded as: Sosa, Ruben-FLC, Sosa, Ruben, Sosa, Ruben FLC, Sosa, Ruben FLC dba Fresh Veg Harvesting
Location on the record: Las Cruces, New Mexico
County: Doña Ana County
Industry: Farm Labor Contractors and Crew Leaders; Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming
Cases: 7 closed, 7 with a violation found
Back wages agreed to pay: $4,241
Workers due back wages: 55
Civil money penalties assessed: $13,136
Violations recorded: 89
First and latest case: 2010 to 2022
Repeat or willful flags: None on the record

Every investigation

Every case on the record, newest first

Investigation	Laws	Violations	Back wages	Workers	Penalties
July 2022	FLSA, MSPA	2	$0	0	$3,835
April 2017 to May 2017	MSPA	2	$0	0	$3,352
May 2014 to June 2014	FLSA, MSPA	12	$0	0	$4,250
March 2014 to April 2014	FLSA, MSPA, OSHA housing	6	$0	0	$650
February 2013 to May 2013	FLSA, MSPA, minimum wage	63	$4,241	55	$850
July 2011	MSPA	2	$0	0	$0
June 2010	FLSA, MSPA	2	$0	0	$200

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

Fair Labor Standards Act: 5 cases, $4,241 in back wages
FLSA minimum wage: 1 case, $4,241 in back wages
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act: 7 cases, $0 in back wages, $13,136 in penalties
OSHA field sanitation and housing: 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 7 on this record, 7 ended with a violation found.

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 New Mexico 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 New Mexico

In New Mexico a wage claim can go to the state: New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions > Labor Relations > Labor Information > Wage and Hour takes claims under state law, which often covers more than the federal rules. The federal route is the Division's page on how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division with 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 Las Cruces, by back wages:

Employer	Cases	Back wages	Workers
Lessons of Life, LLC	1	$1,079,209	193
Hearts of Hope, LLC	1	$473,186	143
Philmar Management LLC	2	$288,532	106
Americom Automation Services, Inc.	4	$76,972	33
BFF Inc.	1	$75,000	0
BHC Mesilla Valley Hospital, LLC	1	$60,539	27
Chachis LLC	1	$45,700	20
Solar Electric Company Inc.	2	$41,267	14
Chachi's Express	2	$37,876	35
New Mexico State University	4	$36,116	16

Related pages:

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.