Labor Cost Challenges Facing California Agriculture

Philip Martin
from ARE Update Vol. 20, No. 1, Sep/Oct, 2016
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Abstract
California will become the first state to require both a $15 an hour minimum wage and overtime pay for farm workers after eight hours of work a day or 40 hours a week in 2022.
Keywords
Farm workers, minimum wage, overtime, immigration reform, AB 1066, Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016
Citation
Philip Martin. 2016. "Labor Cost Challenges Facing California Agriculture." ARE Update 20(1): 1-4. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
https://giannini.ucop.edu/filer/file/1475710056/17686/