January 10, 2012
A Nebraska magistrate judge on Monday advised the court to deny Farmland Foods Inc.'s bid for decertification of a collective action accusing the meat packer of stiffing workers on don and doff pay, saying that the employees are similarly situated enough to proceed together.
February 02, 2011
A federal judge has denied Farmland Foods Inc.'s latest attempt to dismiss employees' overtime pay claims for work-related activities under the Fair Labor Standards Act in a larger donning and doffing collective action.
November 17, 2008
Smithfield Foods Inc. has been slammed with a proposed class and collective action alleging that it failed to pay the employees at its Crete, Neb., hog processing facility for time spent donning and doffing their uniforms and for other time worked.