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Since Jan. 1, agriculture has a 40-hour work week. But the system drew concerns from some growers over labor costs — and has workers split, too.

Conditions in the immigrant detention facility have garnered over 300 complaints, but a law to increase state oversight is still tied up in court.

But workers it would affect can’t weigh in. Ethics rules prevent them from lobbying on bills — even ones that would define their ability to unionize.

Workers fear that the move — which would be the nation’s largest-ever grocer consolidation — could undermine bargaining or close current locations.

One company negotiated a $1.3M reduction with the state’s safety agency after a worker’s hand was crushed, following multiple other violations.

Here are 12 new policies that will come into effect in 2024.

A fatal trench collapse in 2016 set precedent for holding employers criminally liable, but officials still struggle to head off repeat violations.

'There are times where you just don’t breathe, because you can’t.'

11 unions representing almost 6,000 city workers are bargaining for new three-year contracts.

The case involving a Washington concrete company was being watched for the possibility it would tip the balance toward employers over workers.

Local committees will still set nurse/patient ratios amid new state oversight, but workers argue the current complaint system falls short.

The move makes the pandemic-era benefit permanent for app-based independent contractors, such as food delivery and laundry service workers.