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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
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 conti...
LOS ANGELES -- San Francisco-based Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company will pay $725,000 and furnish other relief to settle a racial harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
âNo bolt fell on our audacious heads.â Concord Museum features women who blazed a path to today By John Laidler Globe Correspondent,Updated May 7, 2021, 2:49 p.m. Email to a Friend This outfit is a style worn by suffragists, such the women in this 1917 photo taken in New York.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff In 1848, pioneering feminist Margaret Fuller insisted that âevery arbitrary barrierâ to womenâs progress be tossed aside, declaring, âWe would have every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man.â The pronouncement by Fuller, a leader in the transcendentali...
This had garnered 101 responses, noted senior policy advisor Sue Mavor. Councillors were quick to point out that this feedback, and earlier opinions from iwi and Maori organisations had been carefully considered. Kevin Taylor, absent from the November meeting, acknowledged submissions both for and against. He had read them all, he said, along with a legal opinion on council decision-making “and for the record I am in favour of the resolution.” CHRIS MARSHALL/Stuff The TaupÅ District Council has confirmed a decision originally made last November to have Maori wards in place for at l...