A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of New York on Tuesday temporarily blocked parts of a New York farm workers law from going into effect.

Judge Lawrence Vilardo issued a temporary injunction that prevents parts of the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act from going into effect until a final decision is rendered on the issue.

The Act, which was intended to go into effect on January 1, 2020, gives farm workers the right to unionize, the right to at least one day of rest every week and the right to overtime pay of at least one and a half times the regular rate of pay if the farm worker chooses to work on their day of rest or works for more than 60 hours per week.

However, on December 30, the Northeast Dairy Producers and the New York State Vegetable Growers Association filed a suit to block the Act from going into effect.

The injunction temporarily blocks three parts of the Act from going into effect, namely the part that requires that supervisory agricultural employees and agricultural employees distantly related to the employer be treated as farm workers entitled to the rights granted by the Act, the part that prevents employers from changing family and supervisory employees’ pay on seven days notice, and the part that imposes criminal liability for violations of those family and supervisory employees provisions.

A hearing is planned on January 24, and then the judge will render a final decision on the case.