Bill Title: Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for a 10 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-14 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08166 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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