farm worker

NY barges ahead on farm worker OT
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Sep 18, 2022
As New York state moves closer to changing the pay scale for farmworkers, great care must be taken to ensure the effort doesn’t completely backfire. T...
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Wage panel recommends 40-hour threshold for OT for farm workers
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Sep 06, 2022
New York state's Farm Laborers Wage Board on Tuesday approved its final recommendation to roll back the current 60-hour-per-week overtime threshold fo...
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Holding off on farm OT a good call
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Dec 27, 2021
State Labor Department officials have made the right call in postponing a decision on farmworker overtime until sometime in January or February. New i...
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Borrello: More hearings on farm worker hours the right move
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Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Dec 16, 2021
State Sen. George Borrello welcomed the state Department of Labor’s decision to delay a finding on the farm labor overtime threshold to allow for a ne...
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