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U.S. to Pay Bean Station Slaughterhouse Workers More Than $1M

Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 13, 2022
News Type: Legal News

The U.S. government has agreed to pay workers at a Bean Station slaughterhouse more than $1 million in a federal case alleging multiple civil rights violations, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. According to the proposed settlement agreement filed yesterday, the U.S. government will pay $475,000 to be split between six individual plaintiffs. An additional $550,000 will be paid into a class settlement fund for approximately 100 Hispanic workers also detained that day. The attorneys for the plaintiffs will be paid $150,000. The settlement stems from the 2018 raid by the IRS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the slaughterhouse in which all Hispanic workers were detained and allegedly cursed, shoved and punched by federal agents. The settlement still will need to go before a federal judge for a final approval hearing within the next six months. That hearing has not yet been scheduled.

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