Forty-four farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers by paying higher wages to immigrants in the U.S. on temporary work visas, the Labor Department said. They have now paid over half a million dollars in back wages to 161 workers.
Civil rights icon James Meredith fell outside the Mississippi Capitol at an event marking his 90th birthday. He suffered no visible injuries.
filed on behalf of local Black farmworkers over claims that farms hired white laborers from South Africa and paid them more than the local Black employees for the same type of work. The department also said the farms did not disclose all conditions of employment, failed to provide accurate anticipated hours of work and bonus opportunities, made illegal pay deductions, failed to provide required reimbursements for travel expenses and failed to comply with recordkeeping requirements.
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Mississippi farms pay overdue wages for favoring immigrants over local Black workers, agency saysForty-four farms in Mississippi exploited local Black workers by paying higher wages to immigrants who were in the United States on temporary work visas, the U.S. Labor Department said Wednesday. The department announced it completed investigations that it began last year in the rural flatlands of the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest areas of the U.S. The 44 farms include catfish growers and operations that raise crops such as rice, soybeans and corn.
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