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  • Judge Upholds $7M Verdict and Adds over $1.5M Pre-judgment and Post-judgment Interest in Tyson Foods Truck Crash
    Oct-31-07 October 31, 2007, Cleveland, Ohio - A federal court judge in Ohio has delivered a strong rebuke to Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, denying their requests for a new trial or reduction of the verdict in a horrific truck crash caused by one of its drivers near Crestline, Ohio in 2004. Since the accident the plaintiffs have tried, in good faith, to settle the case w...
  • Tyson Foods Chicken Whistleblower
    Oct-3-09 Harrison, AR In March 2009 Dale Adams, a former employee of Tyson Foods, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against Tyson Foods Inc. Adams blew the whistle on the world's largest meat processor and the second largest chicken producer in the US when he revealed that one of its plants was washing off chickens that had fallen to the floor and were sup...
  • Tyson Foods Requests New Donning and Doffing Lawsuit
    Jul-24-16 Sioux City, IO: After losing round after round of a donning and doffing lawsuit filed against it, Tyson Foods has filed a brief requesting a new lawsuit. Tyson Foods recently lost an appeal of a lower court award of $5.8 million to employees who alleged they were not properly compensated for time spent putting on and taking off safety gear for work. ...
  • Tyson Employees Win in Supreme Court Donning and Doffing Decision
    May-24-16 Washington, DC: Employees who filed an unpaid wages lawsuit against Tyson Foods were given a victory by the US Supreme Court, which recently upheld a lower court’s $5.8 million judgment against Tyson. At issue was time spent donning and doffing protective gear, required for employees who worked on the production line at Tyson Foods. According...
  • Tyson Foods Donning and Doffing Case Heard by Supreme Court
    Nov-25-15 Washington, DC: The US Supreme Court has heard the Tyson Foods unpaid wages lawsuit, according to reports. The donning and doffing lawsuit was filed by Tyson employees who argued that they should be paid for time spent putting on and taking off mandatory protective work gear and should have a judgment in their favor based on averages instead of time re...
  • Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Donning and Doffing Lawsuit
    Jul-22-15 Washington, DC The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an unpaid wages lawsuit alleging employees were not properly paid for putting on and taking off protective gear for work. The lawsuit was filed by Tyson Foods employees who won the case when in the lower courts. Tyson Foods appealed the award, however, arguing the class should not have been certifi...
  • Tyson Foods Off-the-Clock Work Settlement Is Approved at Nearly $19 Million
    Apr-4-14 Lexington, NE Barring an appeal, it appears as though an Unpaid Wages lawsuit brought against Tyson Foods Inc. (Tyson) in 2008 is in its final days, following approval by a federal judge in late January of terms relating to a settlement that will bring the six-year-old lawsuit to a close. However, the Tyson donning and doffing lawsuit, alleging off-...
  • Tyson Donning and Doffing Petition Sent to Supreme Court
    May-26-15 Washington, DC Petitions to the Supreme Court have been filed in the Tyson Foods unpaid wages lawsuit , in which employees claimed they were improperly not paid for time spent donning and doffing protective gear for work. Both sides have submitted arguments to the Supreme Court related to the unpaid wages claim, which employees had previously won. Ac...
  • Tyson Loses Donning and Doffing Appeal
    Aug-25-14 Denver, CO In an unpaid wages lawsuit that alleged employees of Tyson Foods were not properly paid for time spent donning and doffing protective clothes, Tyson has had its appeal of an award rejected. Plaintiffs were awarded $4 million in their lawsuit, in which they alleged time spent putting on and taking off protective gear equaled off-the-clock wor...
  • Don Tyson and Tyson Limited Partnership agree to $4.5 million Tyson Foods shareholder settlement
    Chicago, IL: (Jan-18-08) A shareholders lawsuit was brought against certain current and former directors of US meat company Tyson Foods Inc., alleging that there was a breach of duties in connection with consulting contracts for Don Tyson in 2001 and 2004. Sources close to the case claimed that as part of a settlement reached, former senior chairman Don Ty...
  • California Donning & Doffing Lawsuit News & Legal Information
    California employees have filed lawsuits alleging they are not properly paid for time spent donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE ) and other safety gear, special uniforms or other clothing required for their jobs. In addition to putting on and taking off work gear, such wage and hour lawsuits may also encompass allegations involvi...
  • Kendall Jackson Unpaid Wages Lawsuit Information & Legal News
    A donning and doffing class action lawsuit has been filed against Kendall-Jackson Vineyard Estates . The unpaid wages lawsuit claims that field workers have not been compensated for time preparing and finishing work, which is a violation of the California Labor Law . The Kendall-Jackson lawsuit involves current field workers and all those employ...
  • Donning and Doffing Case Goes to Wisconsin Plaintiffs on Appeal
    Sep-16-13 Milwaukee, WI A frequent player appearing as an unpaid wages claim is the egress/regress lawsuit, where an employee or group of employees take an employer to task for the requirement to don and then remove clothing or gear specific to the job at hand, without compensation. To that end, an Unpaid Wages lawsuit filed as a class action by a group of em...
  • Donning and Doffing: Dress on Your Time or California Overtime?
    Oct-10-13 Sacramento, CA A large number of the workforce - from cops to meat packers - spend time each day donning and doffing, i.e., time spent each day dressing in protective gear or work-related clothing and later removing it all before going home. There is also a growing number of California overtime lawsuits filed by disgruntled workers who claim they shoul...
  • California Firm Recalls Ready-To-Eat Pork Products
    Washington, DC: Autentico Foods, a Hawaiian Gardens, CA, establishment, is recalling approximately 54,000 pounds of ready-to-eat pork products that it did not produce in accordance with its food safety plan. The problem was discovered through a review of company records that uncovered evidence to show that the establishment's food safety recor...
  • Attorney Charles W. Shipley Speaks on Messing with Farmers and the Environment
    Mar-25-08 Tulsa, OK LawyersandSettlements heard from Tulsa attorney Chuck Shipley recently when he alerted us to a recent $21 million class action verdict against OK Foods of Fort Smith, Arkansas on behalf of 300 chicken farmers. When we spoke to him, he was just back from a week off. We didn't need to ask many questions! LawyersandSettlements (LAS): Where have...
  • Tyson to Pay $5M in Unpaid Wages and Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
    Dakota City, NB: Tyson Foods has been ordered to pay nearly $5 million as settlement in an unpaid wages and overtime class action lawsuit. The lawsuit dealt specifically with allegations that employees were not compensated for the time it took them to put on and take off clothing necessary for their work at a beef processing plant, violating the Fai...
  • Tyson Foods Settles Consumer Class Action
    Baltimore, MD: A $5 million settlement in the consumer class action brought against Tyson Foods Inc, was approved Tuesday in Baltimore. The suit was brought over Tyson's controversial advertising campaign which stated that its chickens were "Raised Without Antibiotics." According to media reports, Tyson's chicken feed contains ionophores, which are...
  • Century Foods to pay $2.5 million settlement in property lawsuit.
    Sparta, WI: (Mar-18-08) Coulee Area Renewable Energy LLC. (CARE) brought a lawsuit against Century Foods International, over the proposed buyout of the 83.7-acre Sparta ethanol plant site. CARE brought charges in Monroe County Circuit Court in December 2007, claiming that Century Foods and Hormel Foods Corp., breached terms of an October 2007 settlement...
  • Diamond Foods, Inc DMND Securities Fraud
    Company: Diamond Foods, Inc Ticker Symbol: DMND Class Period: Apr-15-11 to Nov-1-11 Date Filed: Nov-7-11 Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Jan-6-12 Court: Northern District of California Allegations: Los Angeles, CA: A securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District...
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