Otsego County Farm Bureau Vice President Darin Hickling, calls the overtime proposal a “nail in the coffin” for New York’s farmers. County’s farmers push back on overtime Farmers across New York State, including Otsego County, are speaking out in opposition as a New York State Department of Labor Farm Laborers’ Wage Board considers lowering the threshold at which farm workers earn overtime pay from 60 hours per week to 40, a move farmers say will devastate their businesses. Farmers went…
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