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Gov. Kathy Hochul and Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon will either accept or deny the Wage Board decision to lower the number of hours in farm workers’ work week.
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The state’s Farm Laborers Wage Board by-passed a legal deadline of December 15th to decide whether farm workers should receive overtime pay after working 40 hours a week. The state’s Department of Labor says it will instead hold more hearings on the issue, beginning in January.
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The legislation change of 40-hour overtime threshold established by Department of Labor wage board back in 2019 added extreme burdens farm businesses.
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Farm workers from across central New York today called on the state legislature to provide them enforceable workplace standards and protections from…
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Advocates for farm workers are trying a new route to gain the right to form a union and be allowed benefits afforded to other laborers in New York. They…
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A Syracuse-based immigration attorney says President Obama’s executive order to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation is a good…