NY wage board recommends delay on farmworker overtime changes auburnpub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from auburnpub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The board had considered lowering the overtime threshold from 60 to 40 hours per week.
Board member and New York Farm Bureau President David Fisher, in a prepared statement, said he supported board chairperson Brenda McDuffieâs position of delaying a decision.
âI had encouraged giving the process more time to fully evaluate what a lower threshold would mean for all involved, especially with such limited data from this challenging year,â Fisher said. âIâd like to thank my fellow wage board members for their time and professionalism and encourage the Department of Labor to continue to work with the farming community to do what is best for our farms and employees. We need each other for agricultural production and our rural economies to flourish.â
Farm Wage Board delays lowering 60-hour overtime threshold for farm workers nny360.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nny360.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ALBANY â The way farm workers are paid in New York state could drastically change, pending the decision of a panel charged with making such recommendations. But it seems the panel will likely wait until the last minute.
The three-member Farm Wage Board was appointed earlier this year to parse out one of the more controversial points of the New York Fair Labor Practices Act, which instituted a broad array of new standards for farms. The 2019 law included a 60-hour threshold after which workers must receive overtime pay â time and a half â as well as a mandatory day of rest and collective bargaining rights.