NY State Senate Bill 2019-S3843

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2019-S3843 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Labor
Law Section:: Labor Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§2, 161, 564 & 674, add §163-a, Lab L; amd §201, Work Comp L

2019-S3843 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the "farmworkers' fair labor practices act" which allows certain farm laborers to take a minimum of one day of rest per week and prohibits farm employers from requiring their laborers to work more than ten hours in any day, sixty hours in any week or six consecutive days in any week, except in certain circumstances.

2019-S3843 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3843

SPONSOR: SAVINO
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act establishing the "farmworkers' fair labor prac-
tices act"; to amend the labor law, in relation to allowing farm workers
one day of rest each week, and including farm laborers within the
provisions pertaining to overtime compensation and unemployment insur-
ance; and to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to service
as farm laborers

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To establish the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act to allow certain
farm workers overtime, a day of rest and disability insurance.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1- entitles the bill "The Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act."

Section 2 - amends subdivision 16 of section 2 of the labor law by
adding five new subdivisions/definitions for "farm", "farm employment,"

"farm employer," "farm employee", and "temporary visa worker". Farm
employees exclude members of the farm employer's extended family.

Section 3 - amends section 161 of the labor law to allow farm workers 24
consecutive hours of rest each week and to provide for payment of over-
time for working on the day of rest. It provides that a day at rest
caused by inclement weather shall count as a weekly day of rest.  Also
allows employee to waive the right.

Section 4 - amends subdivision 1 of section 161 of the labor law of the
bill strikes the farm-related exclusions from day of rest.

Section 5 - amends labor law by adding a new section 163-a, to provide
for overtime pay under certain circumstances for hourly, some salaried,
and piece rate workers. Most workers would be paid overtime after 60
hours in a week or for any hours in excess of 10. A worker could not
refuse overtime hours without medical excuse except for the day of rest
overtime hours. "Overtime hours" are defined as hours worked by a farm
employee of more than ten hours in any day, sixty hours in a calendar
week, or six days in a calendar week. Overtime rate would be one and
one-half times the regular rate for the overtime hours worked.

Section 6 - amends subdivision 2 of section 564 of the labor law to
provide that farm employers are not liable to pay unemployment insurance
contributions to fund benefits for temporary visa workers that are inel-
igible to qualify for such benefits.

Section 7 - amends subdivision 1 of section 674 of the labor law
empowering the Commissioner of Labor to promulgate regulations to carry
out the "Farmworkers 'Fair Labor Practices Act".

Section 8 - amends subdivision 6 of section 201 of the workers' compen-
sation law to provide for NYS statutory disability coverage for farm
employees who are not temporary visa workers that are by law seasonal
workers.

Section 9 - directs the Commissioner of the Department of Labor to
report to the Governor and the Legislature by April 1, 2020, on the
feasibility and practicality of allowing farmworkers to organize for the
purpose of collective bargaining.

Section 10 - April 1, 2020.

 
EXISTING LAW:

*Section 161 of the labor law excludes farmworkers from the right to a
day of rest.
*The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. Section 213, excludes
farm workers from the right to overtime pay for work in excess of 40
hours a week.
*Section 674 of the labor law allows underage farmworkers to be paid
less than the minimum wage rate.
*Section 201(6) (A) of the workers' compensation law excludes farmwork-
ers from the right to disability insurance.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Farmworkers perform essential services for New York's agricultural
industry that ranks near the top nationally in dairy, apples, vegeta-
bles, grapes, floriculture and other products. Farm work is labor inten-
sive that involves arduous tasks, exposure to pesticides, and long
hours. Farmworkers frequently suffer physical injuries and illnesses in
the course of their employment, often beyond that suffered by workers in
other industries.

This bill is agriculture appropriate legislation that would provide
fundamental labor protections and benefits for farm workers are excluded
from the basic labor law protections of the federal Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA) and the National Labor relations Act (NLRA) and NYS Labor Law
and Workers' Compensation Law.

This framework would end the most egregious exemptions while taking into
account the ways in which NY agriculture presents labor relations issues
that have been dealt with sensitively in other major agricultural
states. The prime argument for this bill is equality and worker dignity;
but economic arguments must be taken seriously and addressed.

According to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York
Agriculture is worth over $5 billion in revenue and employs nearly two
hundred thousand workers, if seasonal and year round workers are count-
ed. An industry of this size and importance deserves support and under-
standing from state government; that must be balanced against a need to
offer farm workers labor protections like those offered all other NY
workers who work in car washes, bodegas, gas stations and other phys-
ically taxing lower wage occupations. This is not an attempt to treat
farms as factories.

This legislation would end such exclusions for farm workers from basic
labor rights such as the right to a day of rest in a week, a subminimum
wage, the right to earn overtime pay, and the right to coverage under
the NYS Temporary Disability Law. In each case, these exclusions would
be eliminated taking account of agricultural realities and industry
peculiarities. After all, when talking about agriculture we are talking
about the safeguarding of our food supply - a necessity of life.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2013 Session - S5882 - new bill, referred to Rules and no further action
2014 Session - S5882 - referred to Labor, no further action
2015 Session - S4247 - referred to Labor, no further action
2016 Session - S4247 - referred to Labor, no further action

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None in the current fiscal year. Some increased enforcement costs in
future years for the NYS Department of Labor and the Workers Compen-
sation Board.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
April 1, 2020.

2019-S3843 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3843
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT establishing the "farmworkers'  fair  labor  practices  act";  to
   amend  the  labor law, in relation to allowing farm workers one day of
   rest each week, and including  farm  laborers  within  the  provisions
   pertaining to overtime compensation and unemployment insurance; and to
   amend  the  workers'  compensation law, in relation to service as farm
   laborers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "farmwork-
 ers' fair labor practices act".
   § 2. Subdivision 16 of section 2 of the labor law, as added by chapter
 564 of the laws of 2010, is  renumbered  subdivision  22  and  five  new
 subdivisions 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 are added to read as follows:
   17.  "FARM" SHALL MEAN AN AGRICULTURAL FOR-PROFIT BUSINESS INVOLVED IN
 COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE WITH RESPECT TO STOCK, DAIRY, POULTRY, FUR-BEARING
 ANIMAL, FRUIT AND TRUCK FARMS; PLANTATIONS; ORCHARDS; NURSERIES;  GREEN-
 HOUSES AND SIMILAR STRUCTURES USED PRIMARILY FOR THE RAISING OF AGRICUL-
 TURAL OR HORTICULTURAL COMMODITIES.
   18. "FARM EMPLOYMENT" SHALL MEAN THE SERVICES PERFORMED BY AN EMPLOYEE
 ON  A FARM IN THE EMPLOY OF THE OWNER, FARM CONTRACTOR, LESSEE OR OPERA-
 TOR OF A FARM IN CONNECTION WITH:
   (A) CULTIVATING THE SOIL;
   (B) RAISING OR HARVESTING ANY AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL COMMODITY,
 INCLUDING THE RAISING OR HATCHING OF  POULTRY,  THE  RAISING,  SHEARING,
 FEEDING,  CARING FOR, TRAINING, MANAGEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, BEES, FUR-BEAR-
 ING ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE;
   (C) THE PRODUCTION OR HARVESTING OF MAPLE SYRUP OR MAPLE SUGAR;
   (D) THE OPERATION, MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION,  IMPROVEMENT  OR  MAINTE-
 NANCE OF A FARM AND ITS TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD10040-01-9

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   (E)  THE  OPERATION  OR  MAINTENANCE OF DITCHES, CANALS, RESERVOIRS OR
 WATERWAYS USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR REMOVING, SUPPLYING AND STORING WATER FOR
 FARMING PURPOSES; AND
   (F)  THE  HANDLING,  PLANTING, DRYING, PACKING, PACKAGING, PROCESSING,
 FREEZING, GRADING, STORING OR DELIVERING TO MARKET OR TO A  CARRIER  FOR
 TRANSPORTATION TO MARKET, OF ANY AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL COMMODITY
 RAISED ON THE EMPLOYER'S FARM.
   FARM  EMPLOYMENT  SHALL NOT MEAN SERVICES PERFORMED IN CONNECTION WITH
 COMMERCIAL CANNING, FREEZING, GRADING OR OTHER PROCESSING OF  ANY  AGRI-
 CULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL COMMODITY NOT RAISED ON THE EMPLOYER'S FARM.
   19.  "FARM  EMPLOYER"  SHALL MEAN ANY INDIVIDUAL, PARTNERSHIP, ASSOCI-
 ATION, CORPORATION, COOPERATIVE, BUSINESS TRUST, LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE OR
 ORGANIZED GROUP OF PERSONS ACTING AS AN EMPLOYER OF A FARM EMPLOYEE.  IF
 A  FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR RECRUITS OR SUPPLIES FARM WORKERS FOR WORK ON A
 FARM, SUCH FARM WORKERS SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE EMPLOYEES  OF  THE  OWNER,
 LESSEE OR OPERATOR OF SUCH FARM.
   20.  "FARM EMPLOYEE" SHALL MEAN ANY INDIVIDUAL ENGAGED OR PERMITTED BY
 AN EMPLOYER TO WORK ON A FARM, EXCEPT:
   (A) THE PARENT, SPOUSE, CHILD OR OTHER MEMBER OF THE EMPLOYER'S  IMME-
 DIATE FAMILY RELATED TO THE THIRD DEGREE OF CONSANGUINITY OR AFFINITY;
   (B)  AN INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYED BY THE FEDERAL, STATE OR MUNICIPAL GOVERN-
 MENT OR A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF; AND
   (C) FOR THAT PART OF THE WORKING TIME COVERED  BY  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 ANOTHER MINIMUM WAGE ORDER PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   21. "TEMPORARY VISA WORKER" SHALL MEAN AN ALIEN ADMITTED TO THE UNITED
 STATES TO PERFORM AGRICULTURAL LABOR PURSUANT TO 8 USC 1184(C) AND 8 USC
 1101(A)(15)(H) OF THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT IF, AT THE
 TIME  SUCH  SERVICES ARE RENDERED, THEY ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE DEFINITION
 OF EMPLOYMENT AS PROVIDED IN 26 USC 3306(C) OF THE FEDERAL  UNEMPLOYMENT
 TAX ACT.
   §  3.  Subdivision  1  of  section  161 of the labor law is amended by
 adding a new undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
   EVERY PERSON EMPLOYED AS A FARM LABORER  SHALL  BE  ALLOWED  AT  LEAST
 TWENTY-FOUR CONSECUTIVE HOURS OF REST IN EACH AND EVERY CALENDAR WEEK. A
 FARM  LABORER MAY CONSENT IN WRITING TO WAIVE THIS RIGHT AND WORK ON THE
 DAY OF REST, PROVIDED THAT HE OR SHE SHALL BE  PAID  AS  PROVIDED  UNDER
 SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  SIXTY-THREE-A OF THIS TITLE. THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL
 NOT APPLY TO THE PARENT, CHILD, SPOUSE OR OTHER MEMBER OF THE EMPLOYER'S
 FAMILY RELATED BY THE THIRD DEGREE OF CONSANGUINITY OR AFFINITY.   TWEN-
 TY-FOUR  CONSECUTIVE  HOURS SPENT AT REST BECAUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, SUCH
 AS WEATHER OR CROP CONDITIONS, SHALL BE DEEMED TO  CONSTITUTE  THE  REST
 REQUIRED  BY  THIS  PARAGRAPH. THE DAY OF REST SHOULD BE THE SAME AS THE
 TRADITIONAL DAY RESERVED BY THE  FARM  LABORER  FOR  RELIGIOUS  WORSHIP,
 WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
   §  4.  Paragraphs b and d of subdivision 2 of section 161 of the labor
 law, as amended by chapter 281 of the laws of 1941, are amended to  read
 as follows:
   b.  Employees in [dairies, creameries,] milk condenseries, milk powder
 factories, milk sugar factories,  milk  shipping  stations,  butter  and
 cheese  factories,  ice  cream  manufacturing  plants  and milk bottling
 plants, where not more than seven persons are employed;
   d. Employees whose duties include not more than three hours'  work  on
 Sunday  in setting sponges in bakeries, [caring for live animals,] main-
 taining fires, or making necessary repairs to boilers or machinery.
   § 5. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 163-a to read as
 follows:

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   § 163-A. HOURS OF AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT.  NO FARM EMPLOYER OPERATING
 A FARM SHALL REQUIRE ANY FARM EMPLOYEE TO WORK MORE THAN TEN WORK  HOURS
 IN  ANY  DAY,  SIXTY WORK HOURS IN ANY CALENDAR WEEK, OR SIX DAYS IN ANY
 CALENDAR WEEK, UNLESS SUCH FARM EMPLOYEE IS PAID AS FOLLOWS:
   1.  HOURLY  RATE. ANY FARM EMPLOYEE WHO IS PAID ON AN HOURLY BASIS AND
 WHO IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OVER, OR WHO  IS  SIXTEEN  OR  SEVENTEEN
 YEARS  OF  AGE  AND  NOT  REQUIRED  BY LAW TO ATTEND SCHOOL SHALL NOT BE
 EMPLOYED OVERTIME HOURS UNLESS THE FARM EMPLOYEE RECEIVES ONE  AND  ONE-
 HALF TIMES THE REGULAR RATE FOR SUCH OVERTIME WORK HOURS.
   2.  PIECE  WORK  RATE.  ANY  FARM EMPLOYEE PAID AT A PIECE RATE WHO IS
 EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OVER, OR WHO IS SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN  YEARS  OF
 AGE AND NOT REQUIRED BY LAW TO ATTEND SCHOOL SHALL NOT BE EMPLOYED OVER-
 TIME  HOURS UNLESS THE FARM EMPLOYEE RECEIVES ONE AND ONE-HALF TIMES THE
 PREVAILING PIECE RATE SET BY  THE  UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR
 PURSUANT  TO  THE  H-2A TEMPORARY VISA PROGRAM AUTHORIZED BY THE FEDERAL
 IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT OF 1952, AS AMENDED,  FOR  ALL  OVERTIME
 WORK HOURS.
   3.  SALARIED  RATE.  ANY FARM EMPLOYEE PAID AT A SALARIED RATE AND NOT
 WORKING AS A MANAGER OR SUPERVISOR WHO IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OVER,
 OR WHO IS SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND NOT REQUIRED BY  LAW  TO
 ATTEND  SCHOOL  SHALL  NOT  BE  EMPLOYED OVERTIME HOURS UNLESS HE OR SHE
 RECEIVES ONE AND ONE-HALF TIMES THE REGULAR RATE AT WHICH HE OR  SHE  IS
 EMPLOYED DIVIDED BY FORTY FOR ALL OVERTIME WORK HOURS.
   4.  A  CONTRACT  BETWEEN A FARM EMPLOYER AND A FARM EMPLOYEE MAY ALLOW
 FOR DISCIPLINE OR DISMISSAL OF A FARM EMPLOYEE WHO REFUSES TO WORK OVER-
 TIME HOURS OTHER THAN ON THE DAY OF REST WITHOUT A MEDICAL OR SUCH OTHER
 EXCUSE PERMITTED BY REGULATION OF THE COMMISSIONER.
   FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "WORK HOURS" SHALL MEAN THE HOURS THAT A
 FARM EMPLOYEE IS PERMITTED TO WORK OR IS REQUIRED TO  BE  AVAILABLE  FOR
 WORK  AT  THE  ASSIGNED  PLACE  OF WORK, AND SHALL INCLUDE TIME SPENT IN
 GOING FROM ONE FIELD TO ANOTHER,  IN  WAITING  FOR  BASKETS,  PICKUP  OR
 BREAKDOWN OF MACHINERY OR EQUIPMENT WHERE THE FARM EMPLOYER REQUIRES THE
 FARM  EMPLOYEE  TO  REMAIN  AT THE SITE OF THE BREAKDOWN DURING REPAIRS.
 TIME NOT WORKED BECAUSE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED AS
 HOURS WORKED. AN EMPLOYEE WHO LIVES ON THE PREMISES OF THE EMPLOYER,  OR
 IN  COMPARABLE  FACILITIES  AT THE WORK SITE, SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED TO
 HAVE WORKED OR TO HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE FOR WORK: (A) DURING NORMAL SLEEP-
 ING HOURS SOLELY BECAUSE THE EMPLOYEE IS REQUIRED TO BE ON  CALL  DURING
 SUCH  HOURS; OR (B) AT ANY OTHER TIME WHEN THE EMPLOYEE IS FREE TO LEAVE
 THE PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT.
   FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "OVERTIME HOURS" SHALL MEAN HOURS WORKED
 BY A FARM EMPLOYEE OF MORE THAN TEN HOURS IN ANY DAY, SIXTY HOURS  IN  A
 CALENDAR WEEK, OR SIX DAYS IN A CALENDAR WEEK.
   §  6.  Subdivision  2  of  section  564 of the labor law is renumbered
 subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
   2. EXCLUSION FROM COVERAGE.  THE TERM "EMPLOYMENT"  DOES  NOT  INCLUDE
 SERVICES  RENDERED  BY  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS AN ALIEN ADMITTED TO THE
 UNITED STATES TO PERFORM AGRICULTURAL LABOR PURSUANT TO  8  USC  1184(C)
 AND  8 USC 1101(A)(15)(H) OF THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT
 IF, AT THE TIME SUCH SERVICES ARE RENDERED, THEY ARE EXCLUDED  FROM  THE
 DEFINITION  OF  EMPLOYMENT  AS PROVIDED IN 26 USC 3306(C) OF THE FEDERAL
 UNEMPLOYMENT TAX ACT.
   § 7. Subdivision 1 of section 674 of the labor law, as added by  chap-
 ter 552 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The commissioner may promulgate such regulations as he deems appro-
 priate  to carry out the purposes of this article and to safeguard mini-

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 mum wage standards. Such regulations may include, but  are  not  limited
 to,  the  defining of the circumstances or conditions for the acceptance
 of non-hourly rates and piece rates as equivalent to the minimum  hourly
 rates  established  by  this article. Such regulations also may include,
 but are not limited  to,  waiting  time  and  call-in  pay  rates;  wage
 provisions  governing  guaranteed  earnings  during specified periods of
 work; AND allowances for meals, lodging, and other items,  services  and
 facilities  when furnished by the employer[; and the employment of indi-
 viduals whose earning capacity is affected or impaired by youth or  age,
 or  by  physical  or  mental deficiency or injury, under special certif-
 icates issued by the commissioner, at such wages lower than the  minimum
 wage  established  by  this  article  and  for  such  period as shall be
 prescribed in such regulations].
   § 8. The opening paragraph of paragraph A of subdivision 6 of  section
 201  of  the workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 481 of the
 laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   "Employment" means employment in any  trade,  business  or  occupation
 carried on by an employer, except that the following shall not be deemed
 employment  under  this  article:  services  performed  for the state, a
 municipal corporation, local governmental agency, other political subdi-
 vision or public authority; employment subject to the  federal  railroad
 unemployment  insurance  act;  service  performed on or as an officer or
 member of the crew of a vessel on the  navigable  water  of  the  United
 States or outside the United States; [service as farm laborers;] SERVICE
 AS  A  TEMPORARY  VISA  WORKER  AS  DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF
 SECTION TWO OF THE LABOR LAW; casual employment and the first forty-five
 days of extra employment of employees not  regularly  in  employment  as
 otherwise  defined  herein;  service as golf caddies; and service during
 all or any part of the school year or  regular  vacation  periods  as  a
 part-time worker of any person actually in regular attendance during the
 day  time  as  a  student in an elementary or secondary school. The term
 "employment" shall include domestic or personal work in a private  home.
 The  term "employment" shall not include the services of a licensed real
 estate broker or sales associate if it be proven that (a)  substantially
 all  of  the remuneration (whether or not paid in cash) for the services
 performed by such broker or sales associate is directly related to sales
 or other output (including the performance of services) rather  than  to
 the  number of hours worked; (b) the services performed by the broker or
 sales associate are performed pursuant to a  written  contract  executed
 between  such  broker  or  sales  associate  and the person for whom the
 services are performed within the past twelve to fifteen months; and (c)
 the written contract provided for in subparagraph (b) of this  paragraph
 was not executed under duress and contains the following provisions:
   §  9.  The  commissioner  of  labor  shall report to the governor, the
 speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate before
 April 1, 2020 on the  feasibility  and  practicality  of  allowing  farm
 employees  to organize for purposes of collective bargaining. In prepar-
 ing such report, the commissioner of labor will consult  with  represen-
 tatives  of  and  advocates for farm employees, individuals and agencies
 that employ farm employees, and relevant state  agencies  including  but
 not  limited to the department of agriculture and markets and the public
 employment relations board. The report shall address the feasibility  of
 an  employee  organization  formed  in  accordance  with the State Labor
 Relations Act, how bargaining units  for  such  organizations  could  be
 formed,  whether there are any unique issues which arise in this context
 and whether there are other possible frameworks for collective organiza-

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 tion or for ensuring the benefits that accompany organization  for  farm
 employees. The commissioner of labor shall also report, with the assist-
 ance  of  an  interagency  working  group which shall include but not be
 limited  to the chair of the workers' compensation board and the commis-
 sioner of agriculture and markets, on how best to provide easily  acces-
 sible educational and informational material for farm employers and farm
 employees.  Such material shall cover employment benefits and applicable
 tax and insurance laws.
   § 10. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020.

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Diane J. Savino

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee

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