Farmworkers could lose wage protections
Lawmakers move to raise the threshold for overtime
Colorado farmworkers could have to put in an additional eight hours a week before they start earning overtime pay under a proposal state lawmakers advanced on Tuesday.
Federal law doesn’t give any overtime protections to agricultural workers, but Colorado passed a law in 2021 that set the s…
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