National Beef Packing Company Announces Settlement Reached in Wage Case – Notice Important Web

Seven companies hit still to enter liberation motions or foretell settlements including Cargill Inc.; Cargill Meat Solutions Corp.; Hormel Foods Corp.; Chiwere Premium LLC; Agri Stats Inc.; Webber, Meng, Sahl and Company Inc.; and WMS and Company Inc.

The suite is considering figure motions to modify the housing filed by Agri Beef Co., pedagogue Beef LLC, Quality Pork Processors Inc., Rochelle Foods LLC, Indiana Packers Corporation, Greater Dhegiha Packing Co. Inc., Smithfield Foods Inc., Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. and Nebraska Beef Ltd.

The example causa questionable that since at small 2014, the companies “conspired and compounded to mend and depress” rectification to employees at most 140 red-meat processing plants crossways the country, in ravishment of the general Antitrust Act. The companies titled in the causa display most 80% of every flushed meat oversubscribed to U.S. consumers.

The causa said grownup executives at the companies ingrained and authorised hourly remuneration rates, period salaries and job benefits.

The upset said the companies conducted “secret” rectification surveys and held “secret” period meetings that included executives from the companies titled in the lawsuit.

The causa alleges the companies were in candid act with grownup executives who “extensively discussed, compared, and in turn, boost quelled rectification finished telecommunicate and sound communications.”

The employees said the companies entered into no-poach agreements, preventing the companies from recruiting the another companies’ employees.

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“Companies Seek Wage-Fixing Case Exit,” https://www.dtnpf.com/…

“Settlement Reached in Wage-Fix Case,” https://www.dtnpf.com/…

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