Items Tagged with 'labor interests influence lawmakers'

The session began with more than 2,000 bills in play and now only a handful remain in the industry’s crosshairs as lawmakers return to the Capitol to wrap up business.

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.