overtime

OLEAN — For manufacturers like Cutco Cutlery Corp., overtime is an important part of doing business — experienced, proven workers taking on extra hour...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The union representing striking corrections officers andNew York statemade a deal Saturday to end the weeks-long strike . The agreeme...

I confess: I’ve always had back-handed respect for public sector workers. It seemed to me they had figured out how to earn decent money with great ben...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Employers and workers may not realize it, but they just dodged a bullet. They can thank a federal judge in Texas who just tossed ou...

ALBANY (TNS) — Farm workers and New York’s legislative staffers have some things in common. They both work schedules that can be unpredictable. They b...

ALLEGANY — A 10-point first-quarter deficit was not enough to derail a perfect start to the 2022-23 season for the Allegany-Limestone boys basketball ...

ORCHARD PARK — So what happens now? In a span of eight days, the Bills have gone from Super Bowl favorite to third place in the AFC East with way more...

It wasn’t the outcome for which it was looking. But here was the good that came from the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team’s 84-80 loss to Canisiu...

PORTVILLE — J.J. McIntosh admitted he wasn’t thrilled to see the Portville boys soccer team’s first-round playoff draw. The Panthers earned the No. 2 ...

In response to a press conference by a group of Upstate Assembly Democrats decrying the lowering of the overtime threshold for farm workers, state Sen...

PORTVILLE — What a difference two weeks can make. Back on Sept. 8, the Portville boys soccer team raced to a 5-2 victory over host Olean at its own to...

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...

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...

NEW SCOTLAND (TNS) — Providing farmworkers with the overtime benefits that most everyone else receives is one of those ideas that seems to make intuit...

NEW SCOTLAND (TNS) — Top state and federal Republican officials are pushing back against a substantial subsidy for farm owners that is intended to cov...

State Sen. George Borrello, ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has proposed legislation that would eliminate the three-member Farm La...

ALBANY (TNS) — Overtime costs at state agencies hit record highs in 2021, according to a new report released by Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The fi...

OLEAN — The third time was still a charm for the Olean High boys basketball team against cross-town rival Allegany-Limestone. The Huskies won their th...