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January 8, 2021
A previous employee at Sanderson Farms filed a complaint on Thursday in the Western District of Texas purporting that the company erred when firing him after he received a workplace injury. He purported that he was fired from Sanderson Farms for not disclosing a previous injury, which is unrelated to his workplace injury and should not have been a factor.
The plaintiff claimed that the defendant breached the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Employee Income Retirement Security Act (ERISA). He explained in the complaint that he “suffered an on-the-job injury” of a torn meniscus in his right knee on October 9, 2020, and requested leave to receive knee surgery in late November, which would lead to a four to six week period where he should avoid “bending, squatting, or climbing.” The plaintiff explained that these are essential to his work as a mechanic at a Texas Sanderson Farms feed mill.
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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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5:05 pm UTC Dec. 10, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.
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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, The American South
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11:07 am UTC Dec. 14, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.