California farmers fight overtime bill

Posted on: June 23rd, 2012

“Farm Bureau officials said ‘the legislature is ignoring the reality that California is one of the few states that imposes any overtime requirement at all on agriculture. Farmers can’t control nature and the weather or market conditions, and policymakers recognized this reality when they created the 10-hour workday for agriculture.’” (The Examiner, June 23, 2012). Read more about AB 1313 here.

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