NC migrant workers to receive $150,000 in human trafficking lawsuit settlement
摘要
日期: 2024年7月19日
地点: 美国
企业
Hannah Forrest Blueberries - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 13
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 墨西哥 , 农业和畜牧 , Women , Documented migrants ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 墨西哥 , 农业和畜牧 , Men , Documented migrants )议题
Wage Theft , 招聘费 , 恐吓和威胁 , 强奸和性侵犯 , Minimum Wage回应
已邀请回应：是，由Media
后续行动: The labour contractors are banned from participating in the programme. Hannah Forrest Blueberries must create and distribute a sexual harassment policy, hang workers’ rights posters at their camps, prohibit the confiscation of workers’ passports and better supervise how contractors reimburse workers for fees and travel costs, according to a Legal Aid press release. The journalist tried to reach Hannah Forrest Blueberries but they did not reply to an answerphone message.
信息来源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2024年7月19日
地点: 美国
企业
Ronnie Carter Farms - Employer受影响的
受影响的总人数: 13
外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 墨西哥 , 农业和畜牧 , Women , Documented migrants ) , 外劳和移民工人: ( 数字未知 - 墨西哥 , 农业和畜牧 , Men , Documented migrants )议题
Wage Theft , 招聘费 , 恐吓和威胁 , 强奸和性侵犯 , Wage Theft回应
已邀请回应：是，由Media
后续行动: The labour contractors are banned from participating in the programme. Ronnie Carter Farms must create and distribute a sexual harassment policy, hang workers’ rights posters at their camps, prohibit the confiscation of workers’ passports and better supervise how contractors reimburse workers for fees and travel costs, according to a Legal Aid press release. The journalist could not reach Ronnie Carter Farms to ask for a response.
信息来源: News outlet
In 2020, 13 Mexican visa holders left their hometowns to pick blueberries and blackberries in southeastern North Carolina.
This week, a settlement awarded them a total of $150,000 in response to a human trafficking lawsuit. The farms and the contractors who brought the workers to the U.S. withheld thousands of dollars they were owed, threatened them with deportation if they fled and sexually assaulted one woman, the federal lawsuit alleged….
But that didn’t happen according to the case against farm labor contractors Valentino Lopez, Jr. and Gilberto “Beto” Lopez, brothers who sent the 13 workers to Hannah Forrest Blueberries and Ronnie Carter Farms, both in Sampson County…
The contractors threatened to deport anyone who fled, the suit said….
Valentino Lopez violated federal H-2A program rules before the this week’s settlement, records show.
In 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division fined the Valentino Lopez more than $62,500 in civil penalties and recovered more than $58,000 in wages owed to 72 H-2A visa holders, according to the Department of Labor…
A message left for Hannah Forrest Blueberries was not returned. Ronnie Carter Farms and an attorney for the Lopez brothers could not be reached.