overtime

You'll never believe how much money New Yorkers wasted by working off the clock last year.

On Wednesday, New York State approved a measure to lower the hourly threshold for farm workers to qualify for overtime pay to 40 hours by 2032.

Two Southern Tier state legislators are calling for public hearings on a farmworkers labor bill.

Overtime pay at state agencies jumped for the sixth straight year to a record $716 million in 2015.

A state worker in New York earned more than $600,000 in the past five years in overtime.

So far this year New York has paid state employees a total of more than $316 million in overtime.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York comptroller reports that state agencies have spent more than $462 million on overtime in the first nine months of this year, a $65 million jump from last year.

A recent audit of New York State finances shows overtime costs are on the rise.

Overtime paid to state employees cost taxpayers about $529 million last year.