California lawmakers revive farmworker overtime bill
Story Date: 8/30/2016

 

Source: YAHOO, 8/23/16

California's state Senate on Monday revived a bill that would make the state the first in the United States to give farmworkers the same overtime pay as people who work in other industries, a last-ditch effort to reverse a nearly 80-year-old practice of exempting field hands from wage rules.

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