VASCM: Ag Overtime Bill - AB 2757 Reduces Crew Hours

[Mary Lindsay]

In case you don't already know about this or want to know what you can 
do about it... The bill, "The Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers 
Act of 2016" has been sponsored by the UFW. The bill was introduced on 
February 19 in the state legislature, and it would gradually move toward 
paying California’s farm workers overtime if they work more than eight 
hours a day or 40 hours a week by the year 2020.

Mary Lindsay
Muns Vineyard


*Bill to Eliminate the Ag Overtime Exemption Set for Hearing*
*/AB 2757 (Gonzalez) – Assembly Committee on Appropriations
Wednesday, April 20^th /*

Coming on the heels of the $15 an hour minimum wage hike, another bill 
that will greatly impact agriculture wage and hour laws has been set for 
a hearing in the Assembly Appropriation Committee. The bill was heard on 
April 6 in the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee, where it passed 
on a party line vote with Democrats supporting the bill. Brad Goehring, 
chair of the CAWG State Government Affairs Committee, and employees from 
Kautz Vineyards spoke in opposition to the bill during the hearing.

AB 2757 by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez (D – San Diego) will eliminate 
the longstanding 10 hours per day/60 hours per week overtime requirement 
for agricultural workers and replace it with an 8 hour per day/40 hour 
per week overtime system.  Such a system is bad for employers and 
employees, and ignores the seasonal nature of agricultural work.

California is one of only four states that require premium pay for 
overtime worked by farm workers. Additionally, California farmers face a 
number of other regulatory and legal burdens that do not encumber 
farmers in other states and countries. AB 2757 represents yet another 
obstacle that continues to tilt the economic playing field away from 
California’s farmers, putting them at a competitive disadvantage, while 
also adversely affecting farm workers.

If passed, AB 2757 will negatively impact workers, increase labor costs, 
and make California agricultural products less competitive on a global 
market.

*/_TAKE ACTION NOW_/* 
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Take action 
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and urge your elected official to OPPOSE AB 2757, a bill that will hurt 
California farmers and hardworking agricultural employees.

OPPOSE Ag Overtime Bill - AB 2757

If you have any questions, call Tyler Blackney, CAWG's Director of 
Government Relations, at 916-379-8995 
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