Urgent: Sign up for Wage Board Hearing Today!
The word on the street is that very few farmers have signed up for tonight’s wage board hearing. Yes, it’s a tough time of year for farmers to do this. Yes, the notice was ...
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Wage Board Hearings Begin Tomorrow: Make Your Voice Heard!
As part of 2019 New York Farm Laborer Fair Labor Practices Act (FLFLPA), The NYS Commissioner of Labor is convening a Wage Board to hear stakeholder input about the weekly hours threshold at which ...
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Safe Harvest 2020: COVID-19 Office Hours
Our first office hours to help farmers and packers with COVID-19 questions is tomorrow, August 25 at 4:00 PM. Please sign up here. Panelists on the call will include: Brian Miner, NYS Department of ...
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NYS Department of Labor Announces Wage Board Virtual Hearings
New York Farm Bureau issued the following news alert on August 21, 2020… NYS Department of Labor Announces Wage Board Virtual Hearings New York Farm Bureau received word today that the Farm Laborer Wage ...
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Agricultural Seasonal Worker COVID-19 Testing Initiative
The following information was released today by the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets… The Departments of Agriculture and Markets, Health, and Labor are partnering with county health departments, Cornell Cooperative Extension, New ...
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