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Judge ruled the suits lacked jurisdiction in civil court because workplace injuries are covered under workers compensation system, not the courts.

A judge rules that families of deceased Tyson employees can only receive workers' compensation payments, potentially costing them millions

One of the seven managers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa fired for betting on how many employees would contract COVID-19 recently broke his silence to defend the controversial ordeal that led to his termination. Don Merschbrock, an ex-night manager at the pork plant in Waterloo, told the Associated Press that he and his six fired co-workers are “not the evil people” Tyson Foods characterized them as. He claimed he and his colleagues did right by their team members and did all they could to protect them from the deadly virus. The seven managers were fired in mid-December, roughly a month a...

Tyson fires Iowa plant managers following allegations they bet on workers getting COVID-19 Catherine Garcia © AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, file The Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa. An outside investigation led by former Attorney General Eric Holder found "sufficient evidence" that when the coronavirus was spreading through Tyson Food's largest pork plant in the spring, managers bet on how many employees would test positive for COVID-19. The company announced on Wednesday that in response, seven of the top managers at the Waterloo, Iowa, facility have been fired. "We val...