Henry's Turkey Service must pay $174,660 for failing to pay the minimum wage to its mentally retarded workers, an administrative law judge has ruled.
The penalty is 15 percent of the $1,164,400 fine that had been proposed by Iowa Workforce Development, the agency that enforces state labor laws.
Iowa Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey Farrell cited several reasons for reducing the fine. For example, he cut the fine by $72,775 after concluding that Henry's, which was accused of housing its workers in deplorable and ,unsafe conditions inside an Atalissa bunkhouse, acted in good faith and complied with the law for the first 40 years it did business.
Either side can appeal…
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