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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextBy Mr. PADILLA (for himself, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr.
Blumenthal, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Warren, Mr. Schiff, Mr.
Markey, Mr. Booker, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Alsobrooks, Ms.
Rosen, and Mr. Lujan):
S. 5304. A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide increased labor law protections for agricultural workers, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mr. PADILLA. Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of the Fairness for Farm Workers Act, which I am reintroducing today.
Farmworkers feed our Nation. This is especially true in California— the agricultural heart of the Nation. California is the most successful State in agricultural production and has the largest population of farmworkers. In fact, nearly half of the country's vegetables and over three-quarters of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in California.
working through extreme weather conditions, injuries, disasters, pandemics, and more. Yet farmworkers have been unjustly excluded from labor laws. The time to address these inequities is now.
for minimum wage and overtime pay, the law excluded millions of domestic and agricultural workers—workers who were and remain overwhelmingly people of color. In 2016, California recognized the need to provide farmworkers overtime protection. The California overtime law, which ensures farmworkers will have an equal right to overtime pay, serves as the model for this Federal bill.
discrimination in labor laws. We must undo the discriminatory exclusion of farmworkers by amending the Fair Labor Standards Act.
the lives of farmworkers and their families, create equity in our food system, and benefit farming communities as the increased wages are spent in local businesses.
years and bring greater equity to the American agricultural industry and greater prosperity to historically marginalized workers.
me, and I hope our colleagues will join us to provide a measure of long-overdue fairness for our Nation's farmworkers.