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California's Assembly Bill 1066, Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016, was authored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher and was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on September 12, 2016. This bill allows farmworkers in California to qualify for overtime pay after working 8 hours in a single day or 40 hours in a workweek ...
The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA) [note 1] is a landmark [2] statute in United States labor law that was enacted by the state of California in 1975, [3] establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state, a first in U.S. history.
The California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) became effective in 2003, it protects a broader scope of workers comparing to Federal's WARN. [23] The California Legislature enacted the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 to help workers collect penalties on behalf of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Wage ...
Far-reaching new laws seek to better working conditions for a broad swath of Californians in 2023 from white-collar employees to blue-collar farm laborers, fast-food servers and construction workers.
A 2023 Sacramento Bee investigation revealed many migrants farmworkers would prefer to stay year-round in California. California closes thousands of farmworkers’ homes annually. New law explores ...
Joe Aguilar of Sacramento waves a United Farm Workers flag in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento after the union finished a 24-day march on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, to call on Gov. Gavin ...
In a separate case, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal ruled in May, 2015, that ALRB violated the law and the "equal protection principles of the U.S. Constitution by seeking to impose a contract on farm employers and workers. [9] ALRB said that it intends to appeal that ruling.
For 2014, the median hourly wages of $9.17 for "Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse" and $11.02 for "Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals" can be compared with the median for all US occupations of $17.09, [28] and with the federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. In 2014, of US private sector workers ...