America's largest garlic farm needs 1,000 workers to harvest its annual crop but faces an unexpected hurdle in this year's recruitment drive: It now must document and track the COVID-19 vaccine status of these seasonal laborers.
Employers in California's Santa Clara County, including Christopher Ranch, have been required since June 1 to ascertain if their workers have been vaccinated and check in every 14 days on those who say they have not or who decline to answer.
The timing of the order, in the middle of the busy harvest season, couldn't have been worse.
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