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Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, chair of the Senate Labor &amp; Commerce Committee, said she felt for Clayton but remained wary of going back on the deal legislators came up with back in 2021 when the agricultural overtime law passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not open to going backward on overtime pay,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not open to repealing or stepping away from farmworkers having a legal right to overtime pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, chair of the Senate Labor &amp; Commerce Committee, said she felt for Clayton but remained wary of going back on the deal legislators came up with back in 2021 when the agricultural overtime law passed. \u201cI\u2019m not open to going backward on overtime pay,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not open to repealing or stepping away from farmworkers having a legal right to overtime pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crosscut: Despite industry pushback, WA farmworkers will keep overtime pay - Karen Keiser Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/keiserarchive\/2024\/02\/06\/despite-industry-pushback-wa-farmworkers-will-keep-overtime-pay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crosscut: Despite industry pushback, WA farmworkers will keep overtime pay - Karen Keiser Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sen. 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