Hispanically Speaking News
Published at 1:24 pm, April 25, 2011
The federal government is suing a farm labor recruiter out of Beverly Hills on charges of human trafficking.
Global Horizons Inc. is being sued in one of the largest cases the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ever had. The civil complaints allege that the company forced a number of workers to harvest pineapples and coffee beans while living in rat-infested conditions.
The farms at with the laborers worked were in Washington and Hawaii, and the EEOC claims that Global Horizons routinely practiced origin and race discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
Full Story: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/eeoc-sues-company-in-one-of-the-largest-cases-of-human-trafficking/7166/
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