Washington’s highest court ruled in a 5-4 decision on Thursday that the state’s farmers are entitled to overtime pay, reversing decades of legal precedent.
The landmark decision makes Washington the sixth state in the nation to grant overtime benefits to farmworkers across the board and the first to do so through the swing of a gavel.
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