One hundred dollars a week.
That’s how much California’s agricultural overtime law has cost farmworkers, according to University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor Alexandra Hill.
In 2023, Hill published research showing the state’s 2016 agricultural overtime law had not achieved its goal of increasing earnings for farmworkers. On the contrary, she found, Assembly Bill 1066 caused workers to lose hours and pay as farmers shortened the workweek to balance their wage bills…