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California’s 2016 agricultural overtime law was meant to raise wages for farmworkers. While some have benefited from the law, a growing body of research suggests it has ended up reducing overall earnings for farmworkers as employers shortened the workweek to keep their costs down. By 2022, when the law was partially phased in, farm employees in California were working three to five hours less per week than a decade prior. On average, their weekly income had declined by $80 to $120, according to research by Alexandra Hill, a University of California, Berkeley, professor who researches agricultural economics and farmworker well-being. Since the law was implemented, Colusa County farmworker Araceli Aceves Cortés said she had lost a third of her work hours. “Suddenly, I couldn’t cover the electricity bill,” she said. “I couldn’t pay rent.” Read more in Ag Alert at https://t.co/cGRWGyucFl 📸: Caleb Hampton #News #AgAlert #CAFarmBureau #AgOvertime #TaxCredit #Farmworkers #ReducedPay #Colusa