Lawmakers take ‘creative’ approach to enforcing heat safety rules for farmworkers

Erika Patricia Deluque Barros said she was working in a tomato field in Yolo County when…

California lawmakers call for heat protections for farmworkers

State lawmakers, responding to a report that the agency charged with ensuring worker safety in California…

California high court rules public agencies not subject to labor law

Public agencies in California are not subject to a controversial law that gives workers the power…

As heat rises, California reduces farmworker oversite

California has sharply cut its enforcement of heat-protection laws for outdoor laborers while extreme heat has…

Long-awaited indoor heat standard goes into effect in California

More than a million workers laboring in warehouses, kitchens, laundry rooms and other hot indoor settings…