Syracuse, N.Y. – Farm workers in New York are about to receive a big bump in overtime pay after a state board recommended that the trigger for overtime wages drop from 60 to 40 hours a week.
The changes will be phased in over the next decade. Farmers are worried, however, that having to pay farm workers like office workers will be so costly it will drive them out of business.
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