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Law360: Poultry Giants Can’t Dodge Workers’ Wage-Fixing Suit

Mar 11, 2021

A Maryland federal judge declined to toss proposed class action claims from workers against three poultry companies accused of plotting to keep wages low and also rejected an effort to trim the suit to exclude jobs the plaintiffs didn’t do. U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher turned down three separate requests to dismiss Jennie-O Turkey Store Inc., Mountaire Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. from the litigation …

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HFA Files Wage Theft Lawsuit against Strickland Waterproofing Company on Behalf of Construction Workers

Dec 22, 2020

Handley Farah & Anderson filed a wage theft lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia on behalf of a group of…

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Richmond Times-Dispatch: Federal Lawsuit Alleges Wage Theft by Subcontractors on New General Assembly Building

Dec 2, 2020

Two laborers have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against a Richmond drywall company and two Chesterfield County labor brokers for alleged unfair labor practices on almost three dozen major construction projects in Virginia, including the new General Assembly Building in Richmond.

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HFA Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Workers Denied Lawfully Owed Wages While Constructing the Virginia General Assembly Building

Dec 1, 2020

Rampant in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the exploitation of workers by denying them lawfully owed wages has reached as far as the companies retained to…

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D.C. Construction Giant CBG Is Being Sued For Wage Theft

Nov 12, 2020

aria Perez began to suspect she was underpaid only a couple of months after starting her new job. In September, Perez was working for a Virginia-based drywall company, cleaning up dust and debris at D.C. construction sites overseen by the large general contractor CBG Building Company.

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The Intercept: Stop-and-Frisk Never Really Ended. Now It’s Gone Digital.

Oct 13, 2020

TERRON BELLE WAS walking home from an upper Manhattan subway station one evening, three years ago, when an unmarked police car pulled up behind him. Four officers in plainclothes surrounded him on the sidewalk, ordering him to turn around against a gate so they could search him.

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Inman: Judge Denies Motion by NAR to Dismiss Buyer Commission Lawsuit

Oct 5, 2020

A U.S. District Court judge Friday denied motions by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and some of the nation’s largest real estate companies to dismiss a lawsuit that takes aim at the practice of homesellers paying the buyer’s broker commission.

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Times of India: They Die in American War Zones, Kin Wage Battle for Compensation

Sep 21, 2020

“His phone just went off,” Mohan told TOI. “He worked as an elevator operator at a private firm. We contacted his employer, the Indian government, and the Iraq government. My mother died two years ago, waiting to hear from my father.”

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Kathmandu Post: ‘Cheap’ Nepali Deaths in US War Zones

Aug 31, 2020

Faced with political turmoil and a lack of job opportunities at home, Nepalis began venturing to both Iraq and Afghanistan in large numbers in the mid-2000s. Noah Coburn, a political anthropologist at Bennington College who studies military contracting, estimates that 50,000 Nepalis have worked in Afghanistan since the war began.

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HFA Files Wage Theft Lawsuit against CBG Building Company on Behalf of Construction Workers

Aug 18, 2020

Handley Farah & Anderson filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court on behalf of a group of former employees of CBG Building Company, alleging they…

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