Koch Meals and Jennie-O Turkey Retailer have reached agreements in precept to settle a lawsuit that accuses the corporate of conspiring with different poultry firms to suppress wages and advantages for workers.
A courtroom doc, filed on August 20 in the USA District Court docket, District of Maryland, stated an settlement, had been reached between Koch Meals and a category of employees who allege the collusion. The settlement is topic to the drafting of a long-form settlement settlement deemed acceptable to the two events and the courtroom. An identical submitting concerning the proposed Jennie-O Turkey Retailer settlement was made in the identical courtroom on the next day.
Phrases of the agreements weren’t disclosed.
A suggestion to settle doesn’t imply an request for forgiveness.
Different firms to have reportedly settled in a swimsuit alleging a wage-suppression conspiracy embrace Tyson Meals, Amick Farms, Pilgrim’s Delight, Simmons Meals, George’s, Peco Meals, Cargill, Sanderson Farms, Wayne Farms, Perdue Farms, Case Farms and Mountaire Farms. Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms are actually one mixed firm, Wayne-Sanderson Farms.
Koch Meals, in accordance with data from the WATTPoultry.com High Poultry Corporations Database, is the sixth largest poultry firm in the USA. In 2023, the corporate processed 62.1 million kilos of ready-to-cook hen on a weekly foundation. Koch Meals is headquartered in Park Ridge, Illinois, and operates eight slaughter crops, 4 additional processing crops, seven hatcheries and 6 feed mills.
Jennie-O Turkey Retailer, a subsidiary of Hormel Meals, is the largest turkey producer in the USA. In 2023, the corporate slaughtered 1.1 billion kilos of stay turkeys.
