Senate passes a compromise bill on farm overtime pay

Dairy farms must pay overtime, but now not retroactively By 2024 more than 40 hours of work on any farm would be time-and-a-half By Calvin Bratt [email protected]   WHATCOM ­— A compromise bill passed the Washington State Senate on March 9 setting a gradual course toward farmworker overtime pay, but nixing the idea of such pay…

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