51 farm workers files lawsuit over illegal recruitment fees
Story Date: 11/20/2015

 

Source: CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/19/15

Dozens of Hondurans hired to pick strawberries in the Tampa Bay-area say they were forced to pay illegal recruitment fees.
Fort Myers-based Florida Rural Legal Services filed a lawsuit this week in Tampa federal court on behalf of 51 workers who picked strawberries two years ago for Fancy Farms in Plant City.

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