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Coalition presses for Fairness for Farm Workers Act to end subminimum wage and add breaks
Summary
A coalition of legal aid groups, the ACLU and farmworker advocates urged the committee to pass H2108 to apply the state minimum wage, paid breaks and paid time off to agricultural workers who currently can be paid a subminimum $8 hourly rate under state law.
BOSTON — Legal advocates, farmworker project staff and civil‑rights groups urged the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development to advance the Fairness for Farm Workers Act (H2108) that would eliminate a longstanding subminimum wage for farm labor and add paid breaks and accrued paid time off.
Speakers said many farmworkers perform arduous, skilled seasonal labor, routinely work long hours in difficult conditions, and often lack access to health care, paid leave…
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