Agriculture overtime laws?
Question by pattil: Agriculture overtime laws?
I work at a large property as a maintenance/landscape employee of a company that owns several properties, some of them equine/thoroughbred farms. I don’t work at one of those. They recently changed my 40 hour week to 48 hours to qualify for insurance, but they said they will not pay overtime as they are covered under the agriculture pay laws. On the property that I work at there are no animals, no farming, no crops, nothing but land and outbuildings that me and 2 other men maintain. Does anyone know if they are allowed to with hold overtime?
As I mentioned, there are no animals, farming, cultivation, growing of any kind of crops on the property I work at. I only mow the property and hedge the bushes and upkeep/landscaping. There is no farm activity on this property at all.
As I mentioned, there are no animals, farming, cultivation, growing of any kind of crops on the property I work at. I only mow the property and hedge the bushes and upkeep/landscaping. There is no farm activity on this property at all.
As I mentioned, there are no animals, farming, cultivation, growing of any kind of crops on the property I work at. I only mow the property and hedge the bushes and upkeep/landscaping. There is no farm activity on this property at all.
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Employees who are employed in agriculture as that term is defined in the Act are exempt from the overtime pay provisions. They do not have to be paid time and one half their regular rates of pay for hours worked in excess of forty per week.
“Agriculture” includes farming in all its branches and among other things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in section 1141j (g) [2] of title 12), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry, and any practices (including any forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market, delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market.
Since you don’t say what you were doing then I can only give you what the US dept. of Labor says.
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Docar
March 24, 2014 at 5:03 am