A girl shared her working experience at a dairy farm. she'd spent a year living with rats, cockroaches, and bedbugs that she said made her skin break out in hives.
Adding "permanent" farmworkers to the H-2A visa program would mean regular health department oversight of employee housing on North Country dairy farms.
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State Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon has accepted a wage board s recommendation to lower the overtime threshold for farmworkers from 60 to 40 hours over the next decade.