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House panel votes to remove farm-worker exemption from Virginia minimum wage
Summary
The House Labor and Commerce Committee voted 12-9 to report HB 1625, which would eliminate the farm-worker exemption from Virginia's minimum wage law and extend state minimum-wage protections to agricultural workers currently exempt under state law.
RICHMOND, Va.
The House Labor and Commerce Committee on Tuesday voted 12-9 to report House Bill 1625, a measure that would remove the farm-worker exemption from the Virginia minimum wage law and apply state minimum wage protections to workers in agriculture.
The bill's patron, Delegate Mariannette McClure, told the committee HB 1625 "removes the farm worker exemption from the, and the temporary foreign worker exemption from the Virginia minimum wage act." She said the change targets outlier employers who pay below federally established wages and would remove what she called a "discriminatory" carve-out.
The bill drew both opposition and support during the…
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