When Border Patrol agents arrested eight migrant workers on a dairy farm in Berkshire, the entire dairy farming industry in Vermont felt the shockwaves.
My lead feeder makes 75k a year. That’s more than I take home for myself. I personally sponsored him to get a visa, as I have for over 20 of my other employees over the past five years.
The lower positions take home 160 a day to start. But there is a pay scale based on time employed, and vacation days accrue and improve based on tenure.
These are my employees, but they are also my neighbors and my friends. I go to their birthday parties and their kids graduations. The quincienetas and baby showers.
I know whose hard work and sweat makes my money, and I work along side them every day. I appreciate and try to return that in kind. We are all in this world together.
Your experience is like mine. I feel like all the conservatives that hate immigrants have never really hung out with them. Yes their cultures can be different but they are neat cultures. There are good and bad immigrants just like any other group of humans but they are overwhelmingly good on average.
Depending on jurisdiction OT might not be payable on time that isn’t outside of their regular schedule. I used to work 12h shifts and by law it was ok because that’s the schedule I was assigned and I agreed to, past that it would become overtime and after 4h of OT I could simply refuse to do more (by law).
And in another jurisdiction it might be different, over here nurses in the french system do 8h shifts and then are paid OT but in the english system they work 12h shifts with no OT until they work more than that…
Again, don’t talk about labor laws as if they were the same everywhere, even in the US there’s federal and state laws, in my case in Canada it’s federal and provincial laws and OT exists in the agricultural sector outside of harvest season in my province (which doesn’t apply to greenhouse work since it’s always harvest season, so no OT in that sector unless it’s not agricultural work you’re asked to do)…
If you read again and pay attention this time you’ll realize that I mentioned the US and gave a Canadian example of agricultural labor laws because the same logic applies, it’s not centralized in the federal government’s hands.
What’s your starting and average per hour pay for them? And are they getting four hours of OT on those twelve hour shifts?
My lead feeder makes 75k a year. That’s more than I take home for myself. I personally sponsored him to get a visa, as I have for over 20 of my other employees over the past five years.
The lower positions take home 160 a day to start. But there is a pay scale based on time employed, and vacation days accrue and improve based on tenure.
These are my employees, but they are also my neighbors and my friends. I go to their birthday parties and their kids graduations. The quincienetas and baby showers.
I know whose hard work and sweat makes my money, and I work along side them every day. I appreciate and try to return that in kind. We are all in this world together.
Nice, thank you for the circle back and additional information, that was interesting to read!
Your experience is like mine. I feel like all the conservatives that hate immigrants have never really hung out with them. Yes their cultures can be different but they are neat cultures. There are good and bad immigrants just like any other group of humans but they are overwhelmingly good on average.
Depending on jurisdiction OT might not be payable on time that isn’t outside of their regular schedule. I used to work 12h shifts and by law it was ok because that’s the schedule I was assigned and I agreed to, past that it would become overtime and after 4h of OT I could simply refuse to do more (by law).
So yeah, labor laws vary, keep that in mind.
Oh weird, I hadn’t realized that but guess I should have since nurses work 12 hour shifts too and don’t get OT for that. Thank for the info!
And in another jurisdiction it might be different, over here nurses in the french system do 8h shifts and then are paid OT but in the english system they work 12h shifts with no OT until they work more than that…
Yes, like trucking, agriculture is exempt from OT, not that some employers don’t choose to still pay it.
Again, don’t talk about labor laws as if they were the same everywhere, even in the US there’s federal and state laws, in my case in Canada it’s federal and provincial laws and OT exists in the agricultural sector outside of harvest season in my province (which doesn’t apply to greenhouse work since it’s always harvest season, so no OT in that sector unless it’s not agricultural work you’re asked to do)…
My bad, it’s federally exempt in the US. The map here is clickable and has state-by-state laws. https://www.farmworkerjustice.org/overtime-map/
This story isn’t about can Canadian jobs.
If you read again and pay attention this time you’ll realize that I mentioned the US and gave a Canadian example of agricultural labor laws because the same logic applies, it’s not centralized in the federal government’s hands.