The 2019 New York farm labor law known as the Farm Laborer Fair Labor Practices Act (FLFLPA) went into effect for most employees on January 1, 2020. But for farm owner family members and many supervisors and managers, the law is temporary held up. As reported in an earlier post, a federal judge in western New York issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that prevents the New York State Department of Labor from enforcing the new law with respect to farm family members, supervisors and managers. the original TRO was set to expire on January 24, 2020, the scheduled date of a hearing. The New York state government, the defendants in the matter, requested additional time to prepare for the hearing and the federal judge extended the TRO for one month with a new hearing scheduled for February 28, 2020.
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By Richard Stup, Cornell University. Permission granted to repost, quote, and reprint with author attribution.
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