Under the bill proposed by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, farmworkers will be paid for overtime after eight hours in a day and 40 hours in a week rather than the current 10-hour day and 60-hour week for agriculture that Brown originally approved during his first stint as governor in 1976. Her children are grown now but many of her coworkers still have young children and working fewer hours would mean more time to help them with homework or see them on weekends. By 2022, farm workers will be eligible for overtime compensation if they work more than eight hours a day.
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Both sides will have some time to plan for the changes as the new law will not fully go into effect until January of 2019.
The Green Bay Packers’ bandwagon may be headed for a crash. “The fact is, they are not treated fairly under the law and that’s wrong”.
“We are extremely disappointed that this legislation was signed into law, as it will be harmful to farm employees, farmers, consumers and the environment”, Paul Wagner, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation, said in a statement.
In order to maintain California’s fiscal stability and keep the state’s budget balanced, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has vetoed a package of bills that would have created new tax breaks or expanded existing tax breaks worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The law will be phased in over the course of the next four years, according to the Sacramento Bee.
It something entirely worse to dismiss economic reality”, said Western Growers Association President and CEO Tom Nassif in a statement Monday, “our farmers compete with farmers in other states and countries with no overtime costs, far lower minimum wages, reliable water supplies and far less regulatory burden.
Perhaps that’s why we need more women in office.
“They won’t come here if they can only work 40 hours”, Chandler said.
Be proactive – Use the “Flag as Inappropriate” link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. Most farm workers at the time were black.
Assemblyman Devon Mathis, R-Visalia, called the new law “a slap in the face” that will deprive farmworkers of needed income.
12 signed into law two historic pieces of legislation that permanently preserve overtime protections for California’s privately hired domestic workers and expands overtime pay for farm workers. “With SB 1015 making AB 241’s overtime provisions permanent, I don’t have to work as much to get so little pay”.
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“Conditions have gotten increasingly bad [for farm workers] in a lot of respects”, says Devra Weber, an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. The state also requires that employers provide rest breaks and access to water and shade.
