Colorado Legislature passes bill to raise agricultural worker overtime threshold to 56 hours

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The Colorado House advanced a bill Thursday that would raise the overtime threshold for agricultural workers, a little more than a year after the original overtime law went into effect. “Farms and ranches — they’re struggling. They’re facing fees, taxes, fuel costs and overregulation,” bill sponsor Rep. Ty Winter, a Trinidad Republican, said. The bill, []