Items Tagged with 'protecting farmworker rights'

California’s regulator of farmworker rights has inked a deal to lease office space for new staff from a confrontational activist group known for its “toxic tours” of farmland.

Governor Gavin Newsom has reshuffled the chairs in a board that has often served as an impediment to scaling up agtech adoption in California. And the change may be paying off for the industry.

Cal/OSHA has fined a Dixon-based farm labor contractor for failing to protect employees from heat illness.

Asm. Arambula is pushing to open housing year-round for migrant farmworkers. But some workers said that money could be better spent on workforce development programs.

The Agricultural Labor Relations Board is taking public comment on a draft regulation to implement Newsom’s card check deal with United Farm Workers.

A bill in the Legislature proposes to ease agricultural overtime rules after a UC Berkeley study found farmworkers have been earning and working less since the state enacted AB 1066 in 2016.

The initiative launched a certification program in 2016 and is developing workforce development tools for tackling the ongoing labor shortage. Yet the not-for-profit organization covers just a sliver of the nation’s farms and it is still shaping its reputation.

More than two weeks after signing a bill on farmworker residency, Governor Gavin Newsom’s office has issued the administration’s first comments on the legislation.

Newsom has signed a bill that lays the groundwork for a permanent residency program for undocumented farmworkers.