Items Tagged with 'extreme heat illnesses among farmworkers'

A new bill in the Legislature would guarantee farmworkers paid sick leave when wildfire smoke, heat or flooding cause work delays.

The cost to cool down processing facilities—which only operate for about two months of the year—would reach as high as to $9 million.

The Legislature could set stronger protections for farmworkers during extreme heat along with new PPE requirements when wildfire smoke blows into the valley, as climate change looks to intensify these natural disasters.