{"id":10630,"date":"2012-09-21T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T17:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2012-09-21T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T17:47:28","slug":"another-victory-for-the-eeoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=10630","title":{"rendered":"Another victory for the EEOC"},"content":{"rendered":"

This must be my EEOC week. Here’s a small story from yesterday’s Times, via AP. It’s an awful story involving a Texas company. It wrenches the heart and begs the question, do things like this actually happen in the U.S.A? And the story is too sad to get wise-ass and cynical and comment that Texas is not<\/em> the U.S.A.<\/p>\n

I’ve bolded a few phrases that destroy my composure and belief in human beingness:<\/p>\n

Iowa: Back Wages Are Ordered For Disabled Turkey Plant Workers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A Texas company that profited for decades by supplying mentally disabled workers<\/strong> to an Iowa turkey plant at wages of 41 cents per hour<\/strong> must pay the men $1.37 million in back wages, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The judgment against Henry’s Turkey Service in Goldthwaite, Tex., is the third against it after the state in 2009 shut down the dilapidated bunkhouse<\/strong> in rural Iowa where the men had lived since the 1970<\/strong>s. The 32 employees had been paid $65 per month<\/strong> to work at a huge turkey plant in West Liberty, Iowa, after Henry’s improperly deducted fees for room and board,<\/strong> transportation and other expenses from their pay and Social Security checks<\/strong>, Judge Charles R. Wolle of United State District Court ruled. The pay had not changed in the 30 years<\/strong> they had worked at the plant. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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This must be my EEOC week. Here’s a small story from yesterday’s Times, via AP. It’s an awful story involving a Texas company. It wrenches the heart and begs the question, do things like this actually happen in the U.S.A? … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[161,87,395,60,436,41,34,396],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-civil-rights-lawsuits","tag-eeoc","tag-eeoc-complaints","tag-employment-lawsuits","tag-law-and-the-courts","tag-legal-causes-of-action","tag-situations-demanding-lawsuits","tag-the-eeoc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t