New Law Makes WA Dairy Workers Eligible For Overtime

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TUMWATER, WA — Dairy workers will be raking in the milk money (sorry for the pun) starting later this month, thanks to a new state law that makes them eligible for overtime pay.

Previously, all agricultural workers had been exempt from Washington's Minimum Wage Act overtime requirement, but a lawsuit brought by a group of dairy employees, Martinez-Cuevas v. DeRuyter Brothers Dairy, ended with the Washington State Supreme Court ruling last year that there was no legal reason those workers should be kept exempt from bonus pay.

As a result of that lawsuit, and thanks to the passage of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5172 during this year's legislative session, dairy workers will begin accruing overtime pay any time they work more than 40 hours a week starting on July 25.

The overtime provision will be enforced by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/new-law-makes-wa-dairy-workers-eligible-for-overtime/ar-AAMcXiM

[Backseat Driver]

1. I foresee schedule juggling and perhaps more on-call PT fill-in workers by management

rather than pay the over-40 hour bonus. Just make the cows wait! Heat a little hotter - filling a little faster...Management always have ways to get around rules that make their labor costs grow.