Frito-Lay workers allege toxic work environment at Topeka plant
On March 6, 2017, Frito-Lay employee Caity Renfro was getting ready for her 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift at the local plant when tornado warnings were issued for Shawnee County. Renfro, of Silver Lake, said she was in the direct path of a tornado, so she took shelter at home instead of making the nearly 20-mile drive to work. "The coordinator on our shift at that time tried to reach out to me," she said. "He didn't want people to be worried about calling in because he thought that the clause in the contract would cover that, where it specifies that something way out of your control would not be...