(The Center Square) – Oregon Democrats' last-ditch effort to guarantee overtime pay for farmworkers could see the state pick up the tab for small farms.
If passed, HB 2358 would see Oregon join five other states—Washington, Hawaii, California, New York, Maryland and Minnesota—in having at least partial overtime pay protections for farmworkers. Advocates for the bill, including the immigrant rights group Causa Oregon and activist groups like Farmworker Justice, see it as a step towards closing the racial gaps in farmworker benefits.
What to know about the latest developments in the Boston police overtime pay scandal
Fifteen current or former Boston Police Department employees have been charged since September, as prosecutors have alleged they embezzled overtime pay for hours they did not work — a total of over $300,000 over a five-year period.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office , Smalls admitted that from at least March 2015 through September 2016, he submitted fraudulent overtime slips for shifts he did not work at the department’s evidence warehouse, collecting a total of about $16,252.
NYPD Likely To Blow Overtime Budget By At Least $162 Million, Independent Report Says - Gothamist
The NYPD is on track to spend more than $434 million on police overtime this year, about half of what the department spent on overtime last year during the height of the pandemic but still beyond budget, according to a report issued by the city's Independent Budget Office Friday.
With the NYPD's fiscal year ending June 30th, the report from the nonpartisan IBO said, "While just a few weeks remain in the fiscal year, the police department is on track to spend considerably less on overtime than it has in recent years."
Officials: Corrections Department wrangling with severe staffing shortages in some
Some Corrections Department employees in Missouri are working unsustainable levels of overtime due to staffing shortages, advocates for corrections officers say.
In the last fiscal year, the DOC had about 10,000 employees working 80,000-100,000 overtime hours each month.
"It's become untenable in some institutions," said Tim Cutt, director of the Missouri Corrections Officers Association. "The overtime these people are working is just ungodly — it's an ungodly amount of overtime."
California Farm Bureau Says Sheep Ranchers Face Drought, Wage Issue
June 20, 2021 - By Ching Lee - Parched pastures have forced many sheep ranchers to thin their flocks, while those who provide targeted grazing services have seen business surge—and producers say looming state overtime rules for sheepherders threaten their viability even if they survive impacts of the drought.
(Left) Kelsey Nichols, ranch manager for McCormack Sheep Ranch in Rio Vista, tends to sheep grazing on postharvest barley stubble that was recently baled. Rancher Al Medvitz, who operates the ranch with his wife Jeannie McCormack, says drought conditions have forced downsizing of his flocks.
Photo/Ching Lee
8th Circ. Won't Redo Kansas City Fire Paramedics' OT Appeal - Law360
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Colorado will enact some of the strongest farmworker protections in the nation | The Counter
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Labor advocates accustomed to pushback say negotiating a bill that includes state minimum wage, overtime pay, rights to organize, and access to healthcare has been an uphill battle in the current climate around immigration.
Colorado's Democratic Governor Jared Polis is soon expected to sign a piece of legislation that will grant extensive protections to farmworkers—going well beyond what bills recently passed in Washington and California gained in securing overtime pay.
Husband-and-wife LIRR conductors stole wages, MTA internal watchdog says | Newsday
The MTA has since 2019 adopted several reforms aimed at curbing wage theft, including by regularly auditing high overtime earners. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost
A husband and wife working as LIRR conductors stole $3,400 in wages from the railroad by covering for each other when one would stay home from work, according to a new report from the MTA's internal watchdog.
The report from the office of Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said the unidentified married couple, on more than six occasions, committed "time theft" and falsified records by punching each other's time clocks to create documentation that both had shown up to work.
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