Times Union

• Commentary: Overtime pay will help, not hurt, New York’s farms

  IRI’s Director, David Dyssegard Kallick and Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute, co-authored an op-ed featured in the Times Union. The op-ed, titled “Overtime Pay Will Help, Not Hurt, New York’s Farms,” highlights the importance of passing a farmworkers’ rights bill in New York. The op-ed also highlights how this bill will help farms and how it is doable in New York, as it has been done in other states.

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• Report: Pandemic upended unemployment trends among people of color, immigrants

  At first, Nivia was working four days a week doing food preparation for a bakery, for $12 an hour. Then her schedule was cut down to three days a week, with fewer hours. Ultimately, she was asked not to return to work at all.

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• Hochul’s floats OT tax credit for farm workers as debate unfolds

  The governor’s proposal comes as farm industry split on lowering overtime threshold.

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