In most states, farm owners don't have to pay overtime to their employees. A case before the Washington State Supreme Court could change that.
Elaine Thompson / APFor Ana, a farmworker, that means long days bent nearly doubled over to snap ripe strawberries from low bushes.
Ana moved to the U.S. from Mexico nearly 20 years ago. She asked that we not use her last name because she's undocumented. In 1938, federal lawmakers created overtime protections, but they excluded farmworkers. And most states, like Washington, copied that rule when they wrote state labor laws. farmworkers are challenging that exclusion in the state's Supreme Court.
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