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Rotational molder Hendren Plastics and its CEO, Jim Hendren, are forgoing $380,000 in court costs they could collect in a long-running legal battle over the company's use of workers from a drug treatment prison diversion program. The newspaper Arkansas Business reported that Hendren told a…
Hendren said in a court filing that his company spent $380,444 defending its good name and vindicating its rights and interests.
Drug and alcohol recovery patients working for a company as part of a treatment program aren't employees and don't have to be paid the minimum wage, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis recently ruled in an Arkansas case.
Hendren Plastics did not break labor laws with workers who were part of a prison diversion drug treatment program, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that state Sen. Jim Hendren’s plastics company doesn’t have to pay minimum wage to participants in a drug and alcohol recovery program who did work for the company.