In historic move, California expands overtime to farmworkers
Story Date: 9/13/2016

 

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS, 9/12/16

Farmworkers in the nation's largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a law that California Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday that he had signed. The new law, which will be phased in beginning in 2019, is the first of its kind in the nation to end the 80-year-old practice of applying separate labor rules to agricultural laborers.

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