Ag-Worker Suit 'Bites the Hand that Feeds Us'

Since the passage of the so-called Farm Workers Bill of Rights, much of the content of the bill has been sent to the rule-making process. Agriculture groups, once they were included in the conversation, did push for flexible rules to fit the industry. It wasn’t a move to protect their bottom line or to protect what proponents of the bill claimed was unfair pay and treatment of workers. Just as one-size-fits-all COVID restrictions didn’t translate from the Front Range to rural Colorado, blanket rules for the state's diverse agriculture industry will be a failure.

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