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Strawberry Fields Fair Labor Suit

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. 

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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