Hochul: 'The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.' Refundable tax credits will cover farmers’ costs associated with new rules requiring overtime pay beyond 40 hours, but pay beyond 60...
for phasing in overtime pay for work below the 60-hour threshold, ultimately ending in 2032 at a threshold of 40 hours per week. Farmworkers will earn overtime pay for work above 56 hours beginning Jan. 1, 2024, then in durations that diminish by four hours every other year, until the threshold reaches 40 hours in 2032.Zeldin said"we shouldn’t be lowering the overtime threshold."
"You mention the farmers," Hochul said."I think you might have overlooked our information on how we are absorbing the costs of the overtime for our farmers. They don’t have to pay any more. The individuals who work for them will be paid more. The state has made a commitment because part of our national security and our economic security is to have family-owned farms here in the state of New York.
, an agricultural workforce specialist with Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development at Cornell University.If a sealed bag of raw poultry appears “puffy,” it means the protein is not safe to consume.The tax credit is provided for farmers who are paying state-required overtime, not overtime a farm owner pays voluntarily to workers outside the bounds of the state requirements,Zeldin responded to Hochul during the debate that the tax credits written into the budget are for just one year.
"That is a concern that farmers have, that the tax credit could go away in a future budget while the lower overtime threshold would remain," said Steve Ammerman, director of communications.Hochul, in response to criticism about the state lowering the overtime threshold for farmworkers from 60 hours per week to 40 hours per week, said that farm owners didn’t have to pay for the recent changes to overtime rules.
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