10.09.2022 Agriculture Overtime pay for farm laborers to be phased in over next decade Farm laborers will be entitled to overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week in 2032, following an order signed by the state labor commissioner. Labor Commissioner...
12.24.2021 Agriculture State may lower overtime threshold for farm laborers, bypasses December deadline The state’s Farm Laborers Wage Board plans to hold more hearings in January on potentially lowering the overtime work threshold for farm laborers from 60 to 40 hours per...
03.24.2015 Police Carbon monoxide from space heater sickens Aquebogue farm workers Three farm workers were taken to Peconic Bay Medical Center after they experienced headaches and grogginess from carbon monoxide emitted by a space heater at Wells Farm in Aquebogue...