USA: Cantu Harvesting reportedly breach USD130k settlement agreement with Mexican farmworkers over wages & substandard housing
Resumo
Data informada: 2 Ago 2023
Localização: Estados Unidos da América
Empresas
Cantu Harvesting - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 11
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 11 - México , Agricultura e Pecuária , Men )Temas
Occupational Health & Safety , Wage Theft , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Access to Justice & Legal ProtectionResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Journalist
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Medidas tomadas: Cantu denied the workers' allegations in November 2022 and a lawyer did not respond to a request for comment in 2023.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
"Farmworkers accuse contractor of breaching $130k settlement of San Antonio federal wage lawsuit,"
Eleven migrant farmworkers have accused a South Texas contractor of breaching a $130,000 settlement over wages and substandard housing conditions.
Pablo Francisco Cantu, who runs Edinburg-based Cantu Harvesting, had been required to pay $60,000 by May 1 and $70,000 by Monday under the settlement in a San Antonio federal lawsuit. But he failed to make either payment, the workers allege in a Tuesday court filing.
They say they are now entitled to an additional $130,000 in liquidated damages, bringing the total Cantu owes to $260,000...
Seven of the workers, all from Mexico, sued Cantu and others in October 2021 alleging they were shorted wages, stiffed on travel expenses and placed in a “squalid” and “dilapidated” labor camp. Four others later joined the suit...
Cantu denied the workers’ allegations in a November court filing. His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday...