Assemblyman Lancman recently met with Kerry Kennedy to discuss safety issues for farmworkers in New York State.

Ms. Kennedy described one of her visits to a duck farm in New York in which she met workers who labor seven days a week, sixteen hours a day, with two separate four hour breaks. These workers perform dangerous jobs with little rest.

Ms. Kennedy is an advocate for the Farmworkers' Fair Labor Practices Act (A.1867), sponsored by Assemblymember Catherine Nolan. This bill would guarantee more rights for farmworkers, including the right to one day of rest per week. The bill passed the Assembly last session but died in the Senate.