Farm labor

Democrats held a press conference Tuesday criticizing the New York State Labor Commissioner’s order to lower the farmworker overtime threshold from 60 to 40 hours over a decade.

When it meets Tuesday afternoon, the three-member New York Farm Laborers Wage Board is expected to recommend the current 60-hour overtime threshold for farmworkers be lowered to 40 hours over 10 years.

The New York Farm Bureau outlined its national priorities this week.

The New York Farm Bureau advocates for one of the state’s largest industries: agriculture. The group recently released its 2021 national priorities.State…

The New York Department of Labor’s Farm Wage Board held three meetings in late December to determine if the overtime threshold for farm workers should be…

A New York state senator from the Hudson Valley has introduced a bill to help connect job seekers with job opportunities on farms.Democratic state Senator…

Members of the New York Farm Bureau are in Washington, D.C. this week discussing the organization’s policy priorities with the state’s congressional…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo this week signed the Farm Workers Bill, which establishes worker rights and labor protections. While the governor calls it…