The free market wins!
Is anyone surprised ? In 2021, Washington state passed legislation to level the playing field. The law began phasing in last year, and by 2024, farmworkers will finally join other workers in earning time-and-a-half after they reach 40 hours in a week.
For [agricultural worker Patricia] Mendoza, the change brought so much promise.
“I told [farm owner] Alan [Schreiber], ‘You’re going to have to pay us a lot of overtime!'” Mendoza says in Spanish about her longtime boss Alan Schreiber, who owns Schreiber Farms.However, it has not turned out that way. Of course it didn’t. Agricultural workers put in very long hours. Many of them sometimes approach double a 40-hour workweek, at least during the busiest seasons. If you’re paying a worker time-and-a-half on a full-time pay sheet, you are spending a lot of money. And if you’re a farm owner, you have a lot of people to […]
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