One of the largest producers of Georgia’s famous Vidalia onions has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $1.4 million in damages and unpaid overtime owed to hundreds of workers.
A U.S. District Court judge found that Bland Farms Production and Packing LLC failed to pay overtime to 460 workers during harvest seasons from 2012 through this year.
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