DOJ Files Complaint, Consent Decrees Alleging Poultry Plants Suppress Wages

(July 26, 2022, 9:38 AM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on July 25 filed a complaint in a federal court in Maryland accusing a data consulting firm and its president along with three poultry processors of conspiring to suppress poultry processing plant workers’ wages and filed two proposed consent decrees aimed at ending the alleged conspiracy and providing more than $84 million in restitution....