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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Posts Tagged EEOC

EEOC accuses Texas farming corporation of heinous abuses at Iowa facility

By | 04.06.11 | 4:20 pm

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Agency (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Texas-based Hill Country Farms. The suit accuses employees and supervisors at Hill Country subsidiary Henry’s Turkey Service, a turkey-processing center in Muscatine County, Iowa, of abusing mentally impaired workers.

Employees with mental disabilities were More…

The Midnight De-Regulation Express

By | 11.11.08 | 6:01 am

It’s something of a tradition– administrations using their final weeks in power to ram through a slew of federal regulations. With the election grabbing the headlines, outgoing federal bureaucrats quietly propose and finalize rules that can affect the health and safety of millions.

The Bush administration has followed this tradition More…