In bid to correct historic wrong, farmworker rights bill advances to floor vote in Maine House
The Maine Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee advanced a bill on Thursday that will expand labor protections for migrant farmworkers — a group that was historically denied the employment rights other workers have. The bill, LD 398, which proposes to extend the state’s minimum wage and overtime laws to agricultural workers, will next go to…
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