JULIE A. SU, Acting Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. BATTLE FISH NORTH; MAGNOLIA PROCESSING, INC.; WILLIAM HOUSTON BATTLE, SR.; WILLIAM HOUSTON BATTLE, JR.; THOMAS COOPER BATTLE; and Defendants
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is seeking an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent a Mississippi fish farm from interfering with its investigation, discriminating against current and former workers, threatening migrant workers with retaliation for their participation in a DOL investigation, or terminating or causing any workers to be deported. The DOL alleges that Battle Fish North and Magnolia Processing, Inc. “have repeatedly and directly interfered” with an agency investigation into potential violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and have “employed systemic threats of retaliation to chill workers from cooperating with the . . . investigation.”
[To accompany Case Law Update "Department of Labor Seeks Emergency Injunctive Relief Against Mississippi Fish Farm That Allegedly Is Interfering in a Fair Labor Standards Investigation" from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 206]