Legislation that would require agricultural employers to pay overtime after 8 hours in a workday will be heard Wednesday, June 27 by the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee. AB 1313 (by Assemblyman Michael Allen (D-Santa Rosa) is opposed by Western United Dairymen and a wide coalition of farm groups. The coalition spelled out the reasons for its opposition: “The legislature is ignoring the reality that California is one of the few states that imposes any overtime requirement at all on agriculture.  Farmers can’t control nature and the weather or market conditions, and policymakers recognized this reality when they created the 10 hour workday for agriculture.”