Source: FARM PROGRESS, 5/6/20


A federal judge in Missouri dismissed a lawsuit brought by Smithfield meat packing plant workers who say the company failed to protect them from COVID-19.  Judge David Gregory Kays of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri said he took seriously the workers’ concern “for their health and the health of their community in these unprecedented times," Bloomberg Law reported, but said the court can’t ignore the authority of OSHA and USDA over coronavirus safety guidance at meat-processing plants or “the significant steps Smithfield has taken to reduce the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at the Plant.”

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