Rodent-infested housing, limited food and water, and physical abuse led to an $8.1 million ruling.
May 19th, 2021
HONOLULU (AP) The U.S. government has collected more than half of a $8.1 million court judgement awarded six years ago to 54 Thai farmworkers abused while working on a Maui pineapple plantation, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday.
The Justice and Treasury departments collected $4.8 million from Maui Pineapple and its entities, and the EEOC will distribute the money to the workers, said Anna Park, the commission s regional attorney. The agencies will continue to collect funds owed the workers until the full judgment is satisfied, she said. This is not the end. This is the beginning. This was just a nice big chunk that came and gave some relief to the claimants. They ve been waiting a long time, Park said.
$4.8M Judgment in Labor Trafficking Case Against Maui Pineapple May 19, 2021
The EEOC brought the case to combat labor trafficking as a civil rights violation under Title VII.
The EEOC initially filed a Title VII lawsuit in 2011 in U.S District Court in the District of Hawaii against Maui Pineapple Ltd., Global Horizons Inc., and other defendants (
EEOC v. Global Horizons, Inc., et al.).
In 2015, the district court entered a default judgment against Maui Pineapple and Global Horizons, a labor contractor, after finding them liable for national origin and race discrimination, awarding over $8.1 million to 54 Thai employees who worked at Maui Pineapple.
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that $4.8 million has been recovered to satisfy a judgment in a national origin and race.
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