“The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.”
What PolitiFact found
New York state is gradually lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers. It is offering refundable tax credits to cover overtime costs between 40 and 60 hours per week.
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In short
Kathy Hochul (Governor of New York) made this claim around 25 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 November 2022, 11 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Kathy Hochul has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/EI0_5v6Ljdk?t=1053
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