Turkey Service owners claim Iowa laws don’t apply
July 8th, 2009By Clark Kauffman in the Des Moines Register:
Faced with a $900,000 fine for the alleged exploitation of its mentally retarded workers, the owners of Henry’s Turkey Service say the company is not subject to Iowa’s labor laws.
Iowa Workforce Development imposed the fine in May after alleging that Henry’s parent company, Hill Country Farms of Goldthwaite, Texas, had paid 34 mentally retarded men less than the minimum wage to work in the West Liberty Foods plant in eastern Iowa.
An attorney for Hill Country Farms said that the company is subject to Texas laws rather than Iowa laws, and workers who lived for decades in a bunkhouse in Atalissa, Iowa, were technically residents of Texas.
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