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Sort by relevance 372 pages found matching tyson foods- Following Suit: Egress/Regress Lawsuit Updates
Sep-23-14 Egress/regress lawsuits are similar to unpaid wages lawsuits in that they allege employees are not properly paid for all time worked. What sets them apart, however, are the duties that are being performed off the clock. Egress/regress lawsuits (sometimes called donning and doffing lawsuits) allege that employees should be paid for time spent putting on or... - Bashas' Grocery Settles Hispanic Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit for $6.5M
New York, NY: A $6.5 million settlement has been reached in a discrimination class action lawsuit filed against Arizona-based Bashas' Inc, alleging the grocery chain discriminated against its Hispanic workers for nearly a decade, by paying them less than Caucasian employees. Filed in 2002, the class action alleged Bashas' paid its employees at it... - 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... - With Xarelto Bleeding Events, There’s No Turning Back
Aug-11-14 Burlington, VT A member of the New Oral Anticoagulant (NOAC) class of drugs heralded as the natural successor to the decades-old warfarin as a blood thinner for stroke and blood clot prevention appears to be gaining a reputation as a high-risk drug. Like Pradaxa, Xarelto has been embraced by the medical community due to the need for less frequent monitorin... - Save-A-Lot to Pay A lot to Ohio Employment Plaintiffs and Others
Aug-3-14 Cleveland, OH As happens with many multidistrict lawsuits, a class action centered in Connecticut also reaches into Ohio and other states, qualifying the litigation for allegations under Ohio Labor Employment Law . The issue involves assistant store managers working for Moran Foods LLC in various states, including Ohio. The claim alleges Moran Foods... - Asbestos Lawsuit Passes Appellate Test, $2 Million Verdict Stands
Aug-1-14 Sacramento, CA There are many issues involved with an asbestos lawsuit that can make it complex, regardless of the apparent causation and association to disease from exposure to asbestos in a workplace or industrial setting. And some trials end somewhat curiously, with one judge recently ruling that a plaintiff could not conclusively prove that the def... - Diet & Health Supplements
Dietary supplements and health supplements are classified under foods rather than drugs. Dietary supplement law mainly deals with dangerous side effects, marketing problems and false advertising. Congress defined a dietary supplement as a product taken by mouth that contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to supplement the diet. ... - Foodborne Illness - Food Poisoning - LawyersAndSettlements.com
Foodborne illness (often referred to as food poisoning ) is a potentially serious health risk that can be caused by a number of factors, including negligence, bad sanitation practices and chemical contamination. Most everyone has suffered from foodborne illness outbreaks at some time in their life, often due to the ingestion of countless different types... - Bullied Microsoft Employee Gave His “Heart and Soul” to the Company
May-23-14 Austin, TX The jury in a high-drama Texas employment lawsuit recently ordered Microsoft to pay $11.6 million to Michael Mercieca, a former senior sales executive who successfully sued the super company for allowing a group of employees to create a hostile work environment where Mercieca was harassed, bullied and retaliated against. “This was v... - Topps Beef Recall E. Coli Contamination Lawsuit
Nearly 21.7 million pounds of ground beef and related products suspected of E.coli contamination has been recalled by Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The suspected beef is known to have sickened 25 people in eight states so far. Of those, three are known to have contracted E.coli from the beef, with a further 22 reports under investigation. ... - 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-... - Feds Stick Up for the Little Guy and Ohio Employee Rights
Apr-3-14 Akron, OH Anyone burned by an employer attempting to circumvent Ohio Labor Laws can take solace in the fact that even an employer who closes shop and attempts to shield oneself from responsibility, is not immune to prosecution after the fact. To that end, even the federal government is involved in an attempt to secure back wages and overtime for a grou... - Accutane Victim Becomes Amateur Accutane Investigator
Feb-16-14 Troy, MI Colin recently discovered that one of many Accutane side effects is ulcerative colitis. Now Colin’s Accutane attorney needs proof that he took the acne drug - and Colin has become “Amateur Accutane Investigator.” “I can’t find anything to prove that I took Accutane,” says Colin. “I wrote letters to... - Januvia Pancreatitis Victim Blames Doctor and Merck
Jan-28-14 Fort Myers, FL Matthew had only taken Januvia for two weeks but he wound up in hospital with acute pancreatitis anyway. He blames the diabetes drug because he was diagnosed with pancreatitis back in 2002, and should never have been prescribed Januvia. Last December, Matthew was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and his doctor prescribed Metformin, whi... - Actor Matthew McConaughey Lucky—May Not Suffer Accutane Side Effects Like Countless Accutane Users
Jan-18-14 Los Angeles, CA Matthew McConaughey, just nominated by the Academy Awards for best actor, admits that he took Accutane in high school to treat a serious case of acne, apparently without suffering Accutane side effects. But thousands of Accutane users didn’t get away unscathed, and it takes a brave man to discuss Accutane bowel problems, such as... - Yasmin and the Birth Control Controversy
Dec-31-13 Dallas, TX Birth control has been in the news a lot lately, whether the focus is on concerns about issues such as Yasmin side effects or concerns about health insurance being forced to cover contraception. In the last few years, Yasmin birth control, Yaz birth control and now NuvaRing birth control have been the focus of concerns about serious, life-th... - 90 Tons of Salad and Wraps Recalled for Possible E. Coli Contamination
Washington, DC: Athertone Foods, Inc. of Richmond, CA, is voluntary recalling "Best Buy"dates 9-23-13 through 11-14-13 of ready to eat salads and wraps because of the potential for food poisoning: the products may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria (E. coli O157:H7). Reports indicate 26 people in three states have become ill from... - 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... - 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... - 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...