(KRON) — A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, showed that California farmworkers made less money since a bill meant to increase wages for overtime work passed in 2016. The bill, AB 1066, removed overtime exemptions and introduced new standards phasing in lower overtime standards until normal work week hours (eight hours per […]
Former Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 to provide time-and-a-half pay for farm laborers working more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week.