California Farmworker Overtime Bill Gets Second Life In Senate

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California’s state Senate on Monday revived a bill that would make the state the first in the United States to give farmworkers the same overtime pay as people who work in other industries, a last-ditch effort to reverse a nearly 80-year-old practice of exempting field hands from wage rules.
The provision passed with only Democratic support after a debate over whether it would help or hurt an estimated 829,000 people who work on California farms harvesting f