November 22, 2016
About 4 million workers would have become eligible to earn overtime under the new rules set to go into effect Dec. 1. Business groups and 21 states sued. A Texas judge has now put the rule on hold.
September 12, 2016 | Ben Adler
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that allows California farm workers to earn overtime pay in the same way non-farm workers do. The measure drew fierce debate in the Legislature.
August 29, 2016 | Julia Mitric
California farm workers could soon be eligible for overtime the way most laborers are: if they work more than eight hours in a day or more than 40 hours in a week.
August 15, 2016 | Julia Mitric
California has more than 800,000 farm workers. A proposal requiring employers to pay farm workers overtime after they work eight hours in a day or 40 hours a week may get a vote later this week in the state Senate.
June 2, 2016 | Chris Nichols | Ben Bradford
The California Senate and Assembly passed hundreds of bills this week, before a key deadline.
April 6, 2016 | Ben Bradford
A bill moving through the California Legislature would require farm laborers to receive overtime pay when they work more than eight hours in a day.
August 21, 2015 | Katie Orr
California may start paying home healthcare workers overtime this fall.
June 5, 2014
Budget discussions will likely include overtime pay for in-home workers.
