MAINE PUBLIC • April 19, 2023
Some farmers and many immigrants' rights organizations said they see the proposed legislation as a way to improve working conditions. But farmer Jeffrey Spear estimates that the proposed overtime policy would cost him an additional $125,000 a year, or he said he would have to cut workers' hours. "This will put Maine farmers out of business and the farm workers without a job," he told members of the Legislature's housing and labor committee.