August 23, 2023
Plant workers can't continue pursuing on a collective basis their claims that Smithfield Foods didn't factor COVID-19 incentives into their overtime rates, an Illinois federal judge ruled, saying the proposed collective mirrors one in a related and settled case.
November 07, 2022
An ex-Smithfield Foods plant worker and the company earned an Illinois federal judge's approval of a $180,000 settlement, ending the man's claims the company failed to include COVID-19 hazard incentives in time-and-a-half overtime rates.
July 08, 2022
A group of ex-Smithfield Foods plant workers asked an Illinois federal judge to conditionally certify their collective action, a lawsuit accusing the company of shorting employees by failing to include COVID-19 hazard incentives into their time-and-a-half overtime rates.
April 19, 2022
Smithfield Packaged Meats illegally shorted compensation for employees at its meatpacking plants by not calculating hazard pay into overtime compensation rates, former workers claimed as part of another collective action lodged against the company over pandemic pay.