Beekeeping: overtime wages: exemption.

Existing law sets wage, hour, meal break requirements, and other working conditions for employees and requires an employer to pay overtime wages as specified to an employee who works in excess of a workday or workweek, as defined, and imposes criminal penalties for the violation of these requirements. The Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016 establishes a schedule that phases in overtime wage requirements from 2019 to 2025, inclusive, for persons employed in an agricultural occupation, as defined. This bill would amend the act to exempt certain employees of a registered commercial beekeeper, as defined, from these overtime wage requirements for agricultural workers.