ALBANY — 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 — time and a half — as well as a mandatory day of rest and collective bargaining rights.
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Working hours to be limited to 8 hours a day; overtime pay to be twice that of regular salary:
As per the new wage rules, any employee working between 15 minutes to 30 minutes time post the regular work hour will be considered as doing a half-hour overtime.
New Delhi: Amidst news reports that the new wage code proposes 12 hours of daily work, government officials have told a business news daily that it is being conetmplated that working hours would instead be limited to 8 hours and any further hour spent post that will be considered as overtime for which the pay will be twice that of regular salary.
Holyoke City Council reviews fire, police overtime - masslive.com
HOLYOKE — The City Council's Finance Committee this week reviewed overtime pay for the Holyoke Police and Fire Departments, following a call by two councilors for a deeper look at whether the city is balancing "cost-effective staffing levels" with public safety.
Since October, the Fire Department has spent $157,305 in overtime, with Police Department spending $266,692 in the same period.
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Murphy said the goal is to maintain proper staffing levels without paying overtime for off-duty personnel. "Potentially, we could have better cost-effective protection in both departments," he said.
Tipton firefighters receive back pay for overtime | wthr.com
TIPTON, Ind. — The City of Tipton paid more than $90,000 to 15 firefighters who were not properly paid for working overtime.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigated the city, finding that it violated overtime requirements in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The WHD said the city failed to pay 15 firefighters who worked more than 106 hours in a two-week pay period. Tipton paid out a total of $91,924 in back wages.
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S. 212, the “Indian Community Economic Enhancement Act of 2020,” which amends three existing statutes promoting Native American business, economic development, and trade development;
S. 900, which designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bozeman, Montana, as the Travis W. Atkins Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic;
S. 2472, the “Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility Act,” which redesignates the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Plum Brook Station, Ohio, as the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility;
Employers need not pay for certain travel time between office, telework locations, DOL says | HR
The FLSA specifies that time periods in which covered employees are relieved from duty and which are long enough to enable the employee to use the time "effectively for [the employee's] own purposes" do not count as hours worked under the law.
Though travel time "must be counted as hours worked" under the FLSA if the time is part of an employee's principal activity, the employee described in the Dec. 31 letter's scenarios "is traveling of her own volition for her own purposes during her off-duty time," DOL said.
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