As reported by the Washington Post on Sept. 13, 2020:

More than 200 meat plant workers in the U.S. have died of COVID-19. Federal regulators just issued two modest fines.

Federal regulators knew about serious safety problems in dozens of the nation’s meat plants that became deadly coronavirus hot spots this spring but took six months to take action, recently citing two plants and finally requiring changes to protect workers.

The financial penalties for a Smithfield Foods plant in South Dakota and a JBS plant in Colorado issued last week total about $29,000 — an amount critics said was so small that it would fail to serve as an incentive for the nation’s meatpackers to take social distancing and other measures to protect their employees.

Sauder Schelkopf is investigating a wide range of employment-related legal claims on behalf of employees who have been impacted the COVID-19 pandemic including:

  • WARN Act Claims
  • Wage & Hour Claims
  • Employee Safety and Claims
  • Whistleblower Retaliation Claims
  • ERISA Claims
  • Employee Medical Privacy Claims
  • Disparate Impact Layoffs

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Sauder Schelkopf is a nationally recognized class action and personal injury law firm. Sauder Schelkopf recently secured a $1.5 million settlement on behalf of 300 former employees of a North Carolina aviation maintenance facility.  Our attorneys also represented former employees of a Texas cabinetry manufacturer in an $800,000 settlement. The firm’s partners currently serve as court appointed lead counsel in courts across the country and have been selected by the National Trial Lawyers Association as some of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania since 2012. The attorneys at Sauder Schelkopf have recovered over $500 million on behalf of their clients and class members.

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