October 07, 2020
A California federal judge tossed a proposed class action accusing a citrus farm of unlawfully not paying workers for downtime, finding that the farm satisfied the safe harbor provision in a state law that protects employers from wage suits.
March 24, 2015
Paramount Citrus Cooperative Inc., the nation's largest citrus grower, urged a California federal judge Monday to toss a potential class action accusing it of failing to pay migrant workers for nonharvesting tasks, arguing the laborers worked for a contractor and were not joint employees.
February 20, 2015
Seasonal field workers on Thursday hit Paramount Citrus Cooperative Inc. with a proposed class action in a California federal court, accusing the grower of failing to pay its migrant workers for nonharvesting tasks such as traveling between fields, which fall outside of their typical fruit-picking duties.