Mexican Farm Workers Settle Employment Suit With Tobacco Farmer

Mealey's (February 8, 2017, 2:01 PM EST) -- LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky on Feb. 6 signed a final order canceling a trial scheduled for March following an $81,308.71 settlement between a group of Mexican migrant workers who claimed that the owners of farms they worked at underpaid them and violated federal labor laws (Cecillo Gutierrez-Morales, et al. v. Earl Lee Planck Jr., et al., No. 5:15-cv-158, E.D. Ky.)....

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