Gonzalez on Monday lauded the governor’s decision, saying the new rules would provide equal protections for California farmworkers, more than 90% of whom are Latino and 80% of whom are immigrants. In California, the Legislature exempted farmworkers from earning overtime pay in 1941. Hourly workers in other jobs across the state receive overtime pay after eight hours a day and 40 hours a week. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar overtime bill in 2010. Monday’s signature on the overtime bill placed a bookend of sorts on Brown’s legacy of efforts to address the needs of California farmworkers.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 12, 2016 20:14 UTC