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22 Sep 2011, 9:48 am
The settlement is in response to a complaint filed by workers that Tyson failed to adequately compensated the employees for time spent “donning and doffing” personal protective equipment (PPE). [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 6:30 am by Joy Waltemath
Tyson Foods has been ordered to pay more than $3.3 million as compensatory and liquidated damages to production employees who engaged in compensable activities, including donning and doffing activities and walking to and from the production line, ruled a federal district court in Nebraska (Gomez v Tyson Foods, Inc, October 2, 2013, Bataillon, J). [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 12:46 pm
This agreement ensures that Tyson poultry processing workers will be paid for all of the "donning and doffing" time spent before and after work shifts. [read post]
7 Nov 2009, 8:34 am
Reuters is reporting that “Tyson Foods Inc., one of the nation’s largest poultry producers, has been found in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at its Blountsville, Ala., facility. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 7:02 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Tyson explains: plaintiffs obtained classwide damages by applying the expert’s average times to all class members despite evidence that some class members spent less time donning and doffing equipment. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 11:55 am by David Wright
Because Tyson didn’t keep records regarding this “donning and doffing” time, the employees (a 3,344 member class) relied on a study performed by an industrial relations expert to prove the average time spent on that activity. [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 6:00 am by Steven G. Pearl
Rule 23.At trial, the parties stipulated that Tyson owed the plaintiffs for donning and doffing certain gear, but left other liability and damage questions for the jury. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 6:21 am by Joy Waltemath
Meat packing giant Tyson Foods lost its bid before the Tenth Circuit to overturn the sizeable verdict and attorneys’ fee award won by its employees on their claims that the company failed to properly compensate them for the time they spent donning and doffing protective gear necessary to carry out their work activities. [read post]
26 Sep 2012, 4:10 pm
The wage and hour lawsuit reportedly accused Tyson of violating provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and robbing workers of their wages by failing to compensate them for the time they spent putting on and removing (donning and doffing) their protective gear, necessary to wear for their own protection, and to keep the food they handle safe during processing. [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 6:00 am by Steven G. Pearl
Rule 23.At trial, the parties stipulated that Tyson owed the plaintiffs for donning and doffing certain gear, but left other liability and damage questions for the jury. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 6:52 am by The Gradeschool Gourmet
In 2004, the SEC investigated Tyson's inadequate disclosures regarding perquisites to Don Tyson and John Tyson. [read post]
24 Jan 2008, 4:13 am
Friday brought the news that former Chairman/CEO Don Tyson and other insiders had settled the 2-year-old shareholder lawsuit over stock option springloading and other not-so-kosher practices at Tyson Foods. [read post]
25 May 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
With so much history of atrocity simply erased in the South (Tyson found that even his own story of Henry Marrow’s murder had pages torn out from it in the public library), the result is that blacks live with the memories, but whites don’t even know about them. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 6:21 am by Joy Waltemath
Tyson was paying up for up to 24 minutes per shift—20 minutes of “K-code” time for standard pre- and post-shift tasks, and an additional 1 to 4 minutes for knife users, who had to don additional protective gear. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 9:42 pm
The DOL alleged that Tyson violated the federal labor law by failing to pay production line workers for time spent putting on and taking off compulsory safety gear, referred to as "donning and doffing" in the meat and poultry industry. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 1:47 pm by Hunton & Williams LLP
  Tyson, represented by Hunton & Williams and Baird Holm, also won a unanimous jury trial verdict in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska last May on similar claims, alleging failure to pay overtime under the FLSA and Nebraska law for donning, doffing and related activities. [read post]
In 2007, Tyson Foods employees at a meat processing facility in Iowa filed suit under both state law and the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), alleging that they were not paid overtime for the time spent donning and doffing protective gear. [read post]