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26 Oct 2011

Auteur:
Malia Zimmerman, Hawaii Reporter

Federal Judge Throws Out Discrimination Complaint Against Six Hawaii Farms

U.S. District Judge David Ezra dismissed a complaint today filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 20, 2011, against six Hawaii farms, saying the government agency that is charged with prohibiting employment discrimination has not been specific enough in its allegations. He gave the agency's Los Angeles-based attorneys 45 days to refile its lawsuit and one more chance to get their filing right. The Hawaii farms named in the complaint, including Captain Cook Coffee Company, Del Monte Fresh Produce, Kauai Coffee Company, Kelena Farms, MacFarms of Hawaii, and Maui Pineapple Farms, all contracted with the Los Angeles-based Global Horizons Manpower Company…to bring in workers from Thailand to work on their farms. Six Global Horizons employees were indicted criminally in September 2010…in what justice officials said was the biggest human-trafficking case ever brought by federal authorities.

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