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CHICAGO ” Employees of the Kraft/Cadbury storage area in Joliet filed a class-action lawsuit Monday sunrise in U.S. District Court that claims they were deceived out of salary by Prologistix, the firm that employs them.
The employees were assisted by Warehouse Workers for Justice, the Chicago-based group that has been working to upgrade conditions for Will County storage area workers for roughly two years. This is the fourth class-action lawsuit and eighth authorised action taken by the organization.
In ultimate lawsuit, workers lay that they are due eighth month pay and they were never since created notices of their wage rates.
“We worked hard to ensure that Kraft got their products to store shelves on time,” mentioned Chris Craig, who worked in the storage area for 8 months. “All you inquire in lapse is that these companies follow the law (and) pay us the salary and benefits they owe us.”
A orator for Columbia, S.C.-based Prologistix denied the allegations.
“We think the allegations are inaccurate, as the firm has treated with colour its workers conform to with its obligations beneath germane sovereign and state laws,” mentioned Gerald Maatman, of Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago, who is portion as invulnerability profession for Prologistix.
A WWJ inform expelled final year showed that 63 percent of workers in Will County warehouses are proxy workers, earning misery salary with couple of benefits.
“It’s the perma-temp issue,” mentioned WWJ coordinator Abraham Mwaura. “That’s unequivocally what it comes down to. When you have that many temps, it only opens it up for abuse.”
Workers at the same storage area filed complaints April 28 with the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The complaints purported that DB Schenker, a German-owned firm that runs the warehouse, has not addressed discrimination, passionate nuisance and antagonistic work mood conditions that add Nazi wall scrawl in the warehouse.
A DB Schenker mouthpiece mentioned at the time that the firm was not wakeful of the complaints and that officials would actions a “thorough and complete” scrutiny of the allegations.
Other WWJ lawsuits all name temp agencies that have hired workers is to Walmart storage area in Elwood: Simos Insourcing Solutions, Reliable Staffing Group and Select Remedy.
All of the companies entangled in the complaints have denied negligence and say they adhere by labor laws.
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