Koch Foods to Pay $3.75M to End Workplace Harassment Suits (1)

Mississippi poultry supplier Koch Foods will pay $3.75 million to resolve allegations of workplace sexual and national origin harassment.

The pact ends a pair of cases that spurred eight years of litigation between the company, a group of 11 workers, and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which filed one of the lawsuits on behalf of a separate class of workers. The prevention of workplace harassment is one of the EEOC’s six strategic enforcement priorities.

“We take allegations of abuse seriously,” the EEOC’s Bradley Anderson said in an Aug. 1 statement announcing the settlement. “No one working in America ...