Related: Workers navigate overtime On Jan. 28, New York’s Farm Laborers Wage Board decided to lower the state overtime threshold for farmworkers from 60 hours per week to 40 hours per week — but not until 2032.  If approved, the new wage rate will be phased in over a 10-year period, with reductions of four hours a week occurring every two years. The reductions will begin Jan. 1, 2024, when the overtime threshold will lower to 56 hours per week. The next reduction, to 52 hours, will occur in 2026, and so on until it reaches 40 hours in 2032. […]