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Ag Briefs: Tyson Settles Anti-trust Case For $221.5M Wisconsin State Farmer Tyson Settles Anti-trust Case For $221.5M A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals Tyson Foods has agreed to pay $221.5M in a settlement in the broiler chicken antitrust civil price-fixing lawsuit against the company. The settlement will be reflected in the company’s first-quarter financial statement. According to a Farm Journal report, the agreement allows Tyson to exit the price-fixing lawsuits filed against it and other poultry companies filed by customers and consumers. The settlement comes ...

CHICAGO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. meatpacker JBS USA and chicken company Pilgrim's Pride Corp said on Thursday they will pay $100 to U.S. employees who receive a COVID-19 vaccine. The bonus is intended to encourage employees to be inoculated, after thousands of U.S. meatpacking workers became infected with the new coronavirus last year. JBS USA is the U.S. arm of Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA and Pilgrim's Pride is mostly owned by JBS SA. (Reporting by Tom Polansek Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

(Adds background, comment from Tyson Foods)CHICAGO, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Meatpacker JBS USA and chicken company Pilgrim's Pride Corp said on Thursday they will pay $100 to U.S. employees who voluntarily receive a COVID-19 vaccine.The bonus is intended to encourage employees to get inoculations, after thousands of U.S. meatpacking workers became infected with the coronavirus last year. Outbreaks of the disease temporarily shut slaughterhouses in the spring, pushing up meat prices and tightening supplies for consumers.

Amazon, Aldi, Walmart, Trader Joe’s and other retailers begin to encourage workers to get the vaccine Some stores say they will give employees paid time off and bonuses when COVID-19 vaccines are more broadly available. Retailers are still trying to get priority status for their employees in the COVID-19 vaccine pipeline while they promote the shots to their workers with incentive offers to get vaccinated. Amazon, which has 800,000 employees in the U.S., said Wednesday that it had an agreement with a health care provider to vaccinate workers at its Amazon fulfillment centers, AWS data cente...

U.S. Hospital Rates Fall; N.Y. Vaccines Run Short: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/22/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on his administrations Covid-19 response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Biden in his first full day in office plans to issue a sweeping set of executive orders to tackle the raging Covid-19 pandemic that will rapidly reverse or refashion many of his predecessor's most heavily criticized policies. (Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden turned to executive action to help...