Lawsuit accuses company of exploiting foreign workers
Source: Associated Press
Updated 4:33 pm, Sunday, April 16, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Guatemalan man and two of his former co-workers have filed a federal lawsuit against a Tennessee landscaping company, accusing the firm of trafficking immigrants for forced labor.
The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/2pmAfi1) that Mynor Chox said he was treated like a servant and threatened with deportation if he complained about working conditions at Outdoors Unlimited landscaping company in Murfreesboro, about 35 miles southeast of Nashville.
Chox, 24, was a college student looking for summer employment during a school break and got a temporary visa known as the H2-B that allowed him to legally work in the United States.
Chox said that when he arrived in Murfreesboro he was forced to live in a trailer in a remote location with 10 others and a "few small, dirty mattresses," all sharing one working toilet.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Lawsuit-accused-company-of-exploiting-foreign-11076780.php
