Smithfield Unit Ordered To Pay Workers For Prep Time

By Erica Teichert ( May 20, 2013, 4:22 PM EDT) -- A federal judge determined Friday that a class of workers at a pork processing plant owned by a Smithfield Foods Inc. subsidiary should be compensated for time spent changing into and out of their uniforms, citing the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Alvarez v. IBP Inc. . . .

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