Federal Prosecutor John P. MacCoon told jurors that corporate greed caused Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest meat producer and processor, to conspire to suppress its workers’ wages by smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico to work in the company’s chicken plants in the United States. Tyson and six employees were indicted in December 2001 in the […]

TEXAS - A jury in Texas ordered Mary Kay Inc. to pay $11.2 million including $10 million in punitive damages, for firing a sales manager disabled by cancer, who, the company argued, was not an employee but an independent contractor.
“This verdict means the 920,000 alleged independent contractors working for Mary Kay have their civil […]