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Article Excerpt
Immigrant workers who were recruited to work in the United States on temporary visas but did not receive the compensation or treatment they were promised can recover more than back wages, a federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled. (Chellen v. John Pickle Co., 2006 WL 2456946 (N.D. Okla. Aug. 22, 2006).)
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Claire Eagan, who had earlier issued a verdict including back wages and punitive damages, increased the award by $52,000 to include emotional distress damages--$1,000 for each of the 52 high-tech welders, fitters, electricians, and engineers from India who accused a Tulsa factory of deceiving them about the terms of their employment and violating their civil rights.
The John Pickle Co.--which, before closing down in 2002, designed and manufactured products for the petrochemical and power industries--and its owner, John Pickle, were found liable for fraud, false imprisonment, and civil rights violations under [section] 1981 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Title VII of the...
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