“Immunity signals to workers and consumers that they go back to work or they go to the grocery store at their peril,” Mr. Vladeck said. Tracking suggests that, at least for the moment, such lawsuits are rare in the United States. According to data collected by the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, 2,645 coronavirus-related lawsuits […]
The Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, N.C., is one of the world’s largest pork processing facilities, employing about 4,500 people and slaughtering roughly 30,000 pigs a day at its peak.And like more than 100 other meat plants across the United States, the facility...
After winning a public standoff with California’s Alameda County officials, Tesla (TSLA) will reopen its Freemont factory Monday so it can start making cars again. Musk essentially dared county officials to arrest him for defying stay-at-home orders. Alameda...
A federal judge has dismissed a worker advocacy group’s lawsuit accusing Smithfield Foods Inc, the world’s largest pork processor, of failing to adequately protect employees from the novel coronavirus at a plant in Missouri.Smithfield is already taking...
Under the California law, which went into effect on January 1 and is known as Assembly Bill 5 or AB-5, companies must prove workers are free from company control and perform work outside the usual course of business in order classify workers as independent contractors...
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