Record $240 Million Discrimination Verdict Won by U.S. in Iowa
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An Iowa jury awarded $240 million in damages, a record for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a trial accusing a Texas-based turkey processing company of severe abuse and discrimination against workers with intellectual disabilities, the agency said.
The jury in federal court in Davenport, Iowa, found that Hill Country Farms Inc., doing business as Henry’s Turkey Service, subjected 32 men to verbal and physical harassment, harsh living conditions and other abuses from 2007 to 2009, after 20 years of similar mistreatment, the EEOC said yesterday in a statement.