---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 U.S.C. § 1832"
title: "29"
title_heading: "Labor"
number: "1832"
heading: "Wages, supplies, and other working arrangements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/29/1832"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection"
  - "Subchapter III — Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protections"
---

# §1832. Wages, supplies, and other working arrangements

- (a) **Payment of wages—** Each [farm labor contractor](/usc/29/1802.md?p=7), [agricultural employer](/usc/29/1802.md?p=2), and [agricultural association](/usc/29/1802.md?p=1) which [employs](/usc/29/1802.md?p=5) any [seasonal agricultural worker](/usc/29/1802.md?p=10-A) shall pay the wages owed to such worker when due.
- (b) **Purchase of goods or services by worker—** No [farm labor contractor](/usc/29/1802.md?p=7), [agricultural employer](/usc/29/1802.md?p=2), or [agricultural association](/usc/29/1802.md?p=1) shall require any [seasonal agricultural worker](/usc/29/1802.md?p=10-A) to purchase any goods or services solely from such [farm labor contractor](/usc/29/1802.md?p=7), [agricultural employer](/usc/29/1802.md?p=2), or [agricultural association](/usc/29/1802.md?p=1).
- (c) **Violation of terms of working arrangement—** No [farm labor contractor](/usc/29/1802.md?p=7), [agricultural employer](/usc/29/1802.md?p=2), or [agricultural association](/usc/29/1802.md?p=1) shall, without justification, violate the terms of any working arrangement made by that contractor, employer, or association with any [seasonal agricultural worker](/usc/29/1802.md?p=10-A).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–470, title III, § 302, Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2593.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days from Jan. 14, 1983, see section 524 of Pub. L. 97–470, set out as a note under section 1801 of this title.