A California Court of Appeal has ruled that employees who are required to contact their employer before an on-call shift, but never physically report to work, may be entitled to reporting time pay. In Ward v. Tilly’s Inc., plaintiff Skyler Ward challenged the on-call scheduling practices of her employer, Tilly’s, as violating reporting time pay [...]
California Citrus Mutual is a founding member of the Air Coalition Team (ACT), which was created to intervene in legal actions brought on by environmental activists. Recently, ACT distributed its year-end status update of cases and issues with ACT involvement or interest. See the highlights of the report below: 1.Medical Advocates, et al. v. U.S. [...]
CCM submitted comments on the Criteria Pollutant and Air Toxics Reporting Draft Regulations this past August. We urge CARB to respond to those comments and welcome further dialogue on the Draft Regulations. There are several areas in the Criteria Pollutant and Air Toxics Reporting Draft Regulations that we have concerns with. First, we are concerned [...]
Today, leading farm bill negotiators in the House and Senate announced that they have reached an “agreement in principle” signaling that a final deal will be made before the end of the year. Included in the initial agreement is language providing $25 million per year for 5 years starting in 2019 for research specific to [...]
A special press conference highlighted the new “Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions (FARMER) Program” on Monday, October 22nd at Bruno’s Iron and Metal in Fresno. Federal, state and local officials gathered to showcase how $108 million from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is helping to fund the FARMER incentive program in the [...]
On Sunday, September 30, 2018, the constitutional deadline to sign or veto bills passed by the California Legislature, Governor Brown vetoed two contentious anti-employer bills. Both bills - AB 3080 and AB 3081 were argued as addressing workplace misconduct, but in actuality were just another attempt by the author Assembly Woman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (made [...]
The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions (FARMER) Program provides incentive funding for agricultural harvesting equipment, heavy-duty trucks, agricultural pump engines, tractors, and other equipment used in agricultural operations. The FARMER Program Guidelines describe project categories available for funding in the FARMER Program and also provide CARB's Executive Officer [...]
On August 23rd, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) unveiled its plan to require the replacement of 12,000 Tier 0, 1, and 2 tractors by 2024. This requirement is contained in their portion of the measures to be contained in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the San Joaquin Valley to achieve attainment of the [...]
CCM recently signed onto a letter with 60 other Ag organizations pushing for the retention of Section12622 of the Farm Bill which requires the Secretary of Ag to fully enforce the existing Buy America requirements applicable to domestic food assistance programs. Unfortunately, this Buy America provision has been largely unenforced by USDA over the last [...]
CCM attended the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) hearing regarding the proposed DPR Regulation No. 18-001 related to Ground Water Protection Areas (GWPA). A GWPA is a one-square-mile section of land that is sensitive to the movement of pesticides. GWPAs can be established if any of the following are true: previous detections of pesticides [...]
