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This week the New York State Department of Labor finalized farm labor overtime regulations. Over the next 10 years overtime will be reduced from the current 60-hour threshold to 40 hours.
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The New York Farm Bureau has released its annual list of state legislative priorities.
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Federal legislation introduced to counter New York Farm Laborers Wage Board overtime recommendationsTwo New York Republican Congresspeople have introduced federal legislation in a bid to stop the state Farm Laborers Wage Board recommendation to lower the overtime threshold from 60 to 40 hours from being implemented.
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The New York Farm Laborers Wage Board formally sent its recommendation to the state labor commissioner Tuesday that the farmworker overtime threshold be lowered. Farm labor advocates are calling for the recommendations to be approved as soon as possible while farmers say the process was stacked against them.
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The New York Farm Laborers Wage Board has formally sent its recommendation that farmworker overtime be lowered to the state labor commissioner.
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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.
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The New York Farm Bureau outlined its national priorities this week.
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Three hearings are being held this month by the Farm Labor Wage Board after it delayed a final decision last month on whether to change the overtime threshold.
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New York’s Farm Workers Fair Laborers Practices Act mandates that all farmworkers, including foreign visa employees, receive overtime after working 60…