March 28, 2019

Farm employees entitled to overtime

By Pat Murphy
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
March 21, 2019

The exemption from the state overtime requirement for agricultural work does not apply to employees at a hydroponic farm whose duties were limited to preparing harvested bean sprouts for market, a unanimous Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The defendant employer, Chang & Sons Enterprises, argued that the exemption for agricultural and farming work under Massachusetts’ overtime … READ MORE