Wage and Hour, Farms, New Legislation

Oregon Enacts Several New Labor and Employment Laws: What Employers Need to Know

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/19/2025

Governor Kotek signed House Bill (HB) 2541 into law on May 7, 2025. Under HB 2541, certain agricultural workers must now be provided with the same accommodations for the expression of breast milk during work hours that have...more

Doing Business in 2020: Courts Tackle Employment Law

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 1/31/2020

Part 2: New Employment-Related Court Decisions Impacting California’s Public and Private Entities - California and federal courts handed down a number of labor and employment-related decisions last year, impacting...more

New Overtime Law: Agricultural Employees To Reap What They Sow

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/31/2019

Seyfarth Synopsis: Agricultural employers have a hard row to hoe with the latest crop of legislation affecting overtime requirements in California....more

5 New Laws: California Governor Approves Employee-Friendly Laws

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/16/2017

The 2017 California Legislature adjourned on September 15, 2017, and resulted in more than 700 bills being sent to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk for approval. Although the deadline for the Governor to sign new bills into law...more

Expanding Overtime to Farmworkers: Will California Start a Trend?

Stoel Rives - World of Employment on 9/26/2016

On September 12, 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1066. The bill, which is the first of its kind in the nation, will entitle California farmworkers to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers in...more

California Legislative Update: It's Now Up To The Governor

Littler on 9/8/2016

The California Legislature completed its substantive legislative work for the year in the very early morning hours of Thursday, September 1, 2016, with the usual frenetic, last-minute flurry of bill-passing, including some...more