Employees of five California poultry processing companies in La Puente and City of Industry may be owed a share of more than $3.8 million in back wages and damages recovered on their behalf by the U.S. Department of Labor.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division is seeking people employed by The Exclusive Poultry, Meza Poultry, Valtierra Poultry, Sullon Poultry or Nollus’s Poultry whose owner, Tony Bran, reportedly failed to pay the full wages owed to workers.
People employed by these companies between Aug. 1, 2020, and Sept. 28, 2023, should contact the division’s West Covina District Office at (626) 732-1070 to determine if they are owed back wages and damages.
The effort to locate the workers follows a consent judgment the department obtained in November 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to resolve the department’s lawsuit against Bran. In its action, the department alleged Bran and his companies violated child labor laws, failed to pay workers required wages and retaliated against employees who cooperated with investigators by firing them.
One of Bran’s companies, The Exclusive Poultry, supplied chicken products to retailers and distributors such as ALDI, Grocery Outlet, Nestle Purina, SYSCO Corp., Ralphs Grocery Company and Royal Canin U.S.A. Inc.
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