Harvest season means long days for U.S. farmworkers — but usually no overtime pay
Federal law exempts farms from rules entitling most workers to 1.5 times their regular wage when they work more than 40 hours in a week.The state's labor commissioner on Friday approved a recommendation to phase in a 40-hour threshold for farmworker overtime over the next decade. Right now, farmworkers in New York qualify for overtime pay only after they have worked 60 hours in a week.
The changes have excited workers, who say they sorely need the extra money, but alarmed some farm owners, who say extra labor costs could wipe out thin profits.That’s what Elisabeth Morales says happened at the grape vineyard where she works in California’s Central Valley. After the state's overtime rules changed, the vineyard cut her hours to no more than 40 per week, and hired more laborers so it could get needed work done without having to pay overtime.
There isn’t much national data yet to say for sure whether lowering the overtime threshold will be as bad for farms' bottom line as agribusiness predicts, or as good for workers as the labor movement hopes. Doroteo prunes and weeds crops for $15 an hour. His pay peaks at $800 a week in the summer, when the most work needs to be done. He makes less in the fall, making it tougher to send money to his three children in Guatemala. He asked that his last name not be published because of worries he might be fired for talking about his job.“There has to be some common sense about what people expect when they go to work on a farm, and that it’s quite unique from other areas of work.
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