Teachey Produce Hit with Workers' Wage and Hour Suit

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Farming outfit Teachey Produce, Inc. and its three owners are facing a proposed class action filed by four former workers over alleged Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA), and North Carolina state law violations. The 91-page lawsuit alleges proposed class members were not paid promised wages, and that the defendants unlawfully and without reason failed to comply with “a number of working arrangements” they had with the named plaintiffs and other class members. The primary working arrangement the defendants allegedly failed to uphold was to provide proposed class members with readily accessible, suitably cool drinking water and “safe working conditions” required by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of North Carolina.

The defendants’ purported transgressions allegedly contributed to one of the named plaintiffs suffering heatstroke for which he was hospitalized in 2016. Unfortunately, as the case mentions, the defendants allegedly reneged on their promise to proposed class members to provide workers’ compensation benefits, as well as pay the minimum wage for all hours worked, among other worker benefits afforded under North Carolina and federal law.