An eight-year legal fight has ended with a Mississippi poultry supplier agreeing to pay $3.75 million and other concessions to Hispanic workers to settle two discrimination lawsuits.
Koch Food of Mississippi LLC agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by 11 workers at the Morton plant and another filed on behalf of the workers by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The agreement was filed Tuesday in federal court in Jackson. U.S. District Judge Dan Jordan signed off on the three-year consent decree outlining the settlement terms.
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