AB 2646: Employment: minimum wages: agricultural workers.

The bill would establish a minimum wage of $19.75 per hour for approved agricultural employees and corresponding employees, effective January 1, 2027. The minimum wage would increase annually by the cost-of-living adjustment for social security benefits. The bill would require the labor commissioner to collect due and unpaid wages for agricultural workers and deposit them into the industrial relations unpaid wage fund. The fund would be used to remit the collected wages, and the bill would make an appropriation to increase the fund's revenue. The bill does not require reimbursement for certain costs.