Strawberry Fields Fair Labor Suit

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A federal judge in California conditionally <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/StrawberryFLSA.pdf"><strong>certified</strong></a> a class of agricultural workers recruited from Mexico to work in a produce company’s strawberry fields. The workers claim they were denied meal and rest breaks, required to pay a supervisor a fee and were not reimbursed for travel expenses. </span>

LOS ANGELES – A federal judge in California conditionally certified a class of agricultural workers recruited from Mexico to work in a produce company’s strawberry fields. The workers claim they were denied meal and rest breaks, required to pay a supervisor a fee and were not reimbursed for travel expenses.

The class is conditionally certified “for the purposes of sending notice to potential class members.”

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