Stories Tagged "disabilities"
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Disabled Iowa Workers Were Exploited
posted on April 26, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Employees of Henry's Turkey Service engaged in "shocking and disturbing employment actions" that violated not only the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Texas Firm Disputes Treatment of Disabled Workers
posted on June 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM
GOLDTHWAITE, Texas (AP) — The co-owner of a Texas business that hired out dozens of mentally disabled workers to work in turkey processing plants in Iowa says the firm didn't violate labor laws.
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Texas Firm That Housed Disabled Faces Iowa Fines
posted on May 29, 2009 at 8:05 PM
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Texas labor contractor that employed and cared for dozens of mentally disabled men who worked at an eastern Iowa meatpacker faces $900,000 in state fines for alleged labor-law violations.
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Iowa Probes Plant That Employed Mentally Retarded
posted on February 13, 2009 at 8:02 PM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - State inspectors have shut down a building that housed mentally retarded men brought from Texas to work in a West Liberty turkey processing plant.
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