45 signatures were collected in support of the opposition. Since the passage of the Farmworker Fair Labor Standards Act in 2019, organizers and farmworkers have contended with a lack of infrastructure within PERB to handle the certification of farmworker unions and to investigate unfair labor practice complaints. PERB, the Public Employees Relations Bureau, is the […]
By Sara Tsai (Source: on labor) The Current Overtime Threshold for Farmworkers On January 28, 2022, the New York Farm Laborer Wage Board made a landmark decision to lower the current 60-hour overtime threshold for farm workers to 40 hours. Workers start earning time-and-a-half pay for hours worked in excess of the OT threshold. Beginning in 2024, the threshold […]
Many New Yorkers working in the cash economy are being left out of the Excluded Workers Fund (EWF) because they cannot prove their work eligibility. The EWF provides up to $15,600 to workers who lost income during the COVID-induced economic shutdown but were ineligible for unemployment insurance benefits. The fund primarily benefits undocumented and partially-documented […]