USA: Bushel Boy Farms & Oro Valley Ag Services failed to pay 94 migrants USD200k overtime, cos. ordered to pay back wages & damages
요약
보고된 날짜: 2024년 6월 17일
위치: 미국
기업 페이지
Bushel Boy Farms - Employer , Oro Valley Ag Services - Labour Supplier영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 94
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 94 - 위치를 알 수 없음 , 농업 및 가축 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )토픽들
임금 착취결과
Response sought: 아니오
시행된 조치: The company was ordered to repay USD200k by Minnesota's Department of Labor and Industry. Labour contractor Oro Valley, which had placed the workers at Bushel Boy Farms, reportedly neither contested nor responded to the state's order.
출처: News outlet
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"Bushel Boy Farms in Owatonna to pay $200K in back wages, damages,"
Bushel Boy Farms is paying nearly $200,000 in back wages and damages to 94 employees for unpaid overtime, state officials said Monday.
The Owatonna, Minn., indoor tomato grower and an Arizona labor contractor, Oro Valley Ag Services, failed to pay employees overtime "even though they consistently worked more than 48 hours a week" between 2020 and 2022, according to the Department of Labor and Industry.
Minnesota law has required overtime pay for agriculture workers for 50 years...
The department issued a compliance order against the company in May, and Bushel Boy entered a consent agreement with the state earlier this month. The company will pay about $97,000 in back pay and an identical amount in damages...
Oro Valley, the labor contractor, provided domestic and H-2A foreign migrant workers for the greenhouse operations. The company did not contest nor respond to the state's order.