3.0.0 3131 2023-01-11T13:42:07Z 2023-01-11T13:42:07Z Senate S 2018-06-25 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2018-06-25T22:56:44Z Fairness for Farm Workers Act 115 6230 HR 2018-06-26 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2018-06-25 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2018-06-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. N F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2018-06-25 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2018-06-25 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2018-06-25 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2018-06-25 True H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. 2018-06-25 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2018-06-25 True V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2018-06-25 True U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM 2018-06-25 True C001113 Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] Catherine Cortez Masto D NV 2018-06-25 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2018-07-17 False Labor and Employment Labor standards Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor Wages and earnings Labor and Employment 00 2018-06-25 Introduced in Senate 2019-10-22T14:48:36Z Fairness for Farm Workers Act

This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 with respect to agricultural workers.

The bill requires employers, beginning in 2019, to compensate agricultural workers for hours worked in excess of their regular hours (i.e., 55 hours in 2019, 50 hours in 2020, 45 hours in 2021, and 40 hours in 2022) at not less than one and one-half times the employee's regular rate. For employers with 25 or fewer employees, the overtime pay requirements begin in 2022. These overtime pay requirements do not apply, as in current law, to employees who are the parent, spouse, child, or other member of the employer's immediate family.

The bill also repeals the exemption from overtime pay requirements for employers in various agriculture-related industries, including certain small farms, irrigation projects, sugar processing, and cotton ginning and compressing.

]]> Fairness for Farm Workers Act Display Title Fairness for Farm Workers Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide increased labor law protections for agricultural workers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Fairness for Farm Workers Act Introduced in Senate 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s3131is/xml/BILLS-115s3131is.xml 2018-06-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.