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The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA) [note 1] is a landmark [2] statute in United States labor law that was enacted by the state of California in 1975, [3] establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state, a first in U.S. history. [4]
The California Labor Code, more formally known as "the Labor Code", [1] is a collection of civil law statutes for the State of California. The code is made up of statutes which govern the general obligations and rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the State of California .
A farmworker, farmhand or agricultural worker is someone employed for labor in agriculture. In labor law, the term "farmworker" is sometimes used more narrowly, applying only to a hired worker involved in agricultural production, including harvesting, but not to a worker in other on- farm jobs, such as picking fruit .
The newly signed law is accompanied by a supplemental agreement between the Newsom administration, the UFW and the California Labor Federation to pass clarifying language during next year’s ...
Specifically, AB 1066 amended §554 of the California Labor Code and added Chapter 6 (beginning with §857) to the California Labor Code. [11] The additional language to the Labor Code instructs the Department of Industrial Relations to update Wage Order 14-2001 to be consistent with the aforementioned provisions of overtime wage compensation ...
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Bryan Little, a spokesperson for the California Farm Bureau and Farm Employers Labor Services, said the organizations aired ads in the winter of 2022 to educate agricultural employees on the new law.
The Agricultural Resource Management Survey conducted by the USDA found that one third of the farm worker population is between the ages of 35–54 years old with an average age of 33. [15] The Department of Labor and Statistics discovered that the median pay is averaged to be $23,730 a year and $11.42 per hour in 2017 for farmworkers. [16]