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Farmworkers in New York should earn overtime pay after 40 hours worked in a week, as opposed to the current 60-hour threshold, a state wage board recommended on Tuesday.
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Members of the New York State Farm Bureau, reacting to a state labor board decision to phase in a 40-hour workweek for farm laborers, warn that could severely diminish the state’s agricultural industry, which is largely made up of small, family-owned farms.
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The thousands of people paid to plant corn, pick apples and milk cows in New York often work long days, six days a week — and earn overtime only after 60 hours of labor. New York took a big step Friday toward lowering that threshold when a state board voted to recommend that a 40-hour overtime rule for farm workers be phased in over the next 10 years.
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Several Western New York Republican state legislators have united to urge the Hochul administration and New York State Farm Laborers Wage Board to reject a proposed change to the existing farm worker overtime threshold, saying it would devastate what they call the state’s largest economic engine.
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The state’s Farm Laborers Wage Board bypassed a legal deadline of Dec. 15 to decide whether farmworkers should receive overtime pay after working 40 hours a week. The state’s Department of Labor said it will instead hold more hearings on the issue beginning in January.
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Farmers warn a 40-hour work week will put them out of business and are urging a state wage board to vote against it.
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The State Labor Department’s Farm Laborers Wage Board is expected to meet again by mid-December, and ponder lowering an hours-per-week threshold. Farm owners fear that may lead many of their seasonal employees to find work with competitors in other states.
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New York farm workers are now eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The state and local health departments are coordinating pop-up clinics at farms…
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Supporters hope that their efforts to change an 80 year old law that excludes farm workers from many of the protections afforded to other workers in New…