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Tony Bran the owner of five poultry processing plants in La Puente and City of Industry, CA is apparently liable for back wages totaling $3.8 million. Bran’s companies include Exclusive Poultry, Meza Poultry, Valtrierra Poultry, Sullon Poultry, Nollus’s Poultry.
 The Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division investigated the companies and has determined that workers were underpaid from August 1, 2020 and September 28, 2023.
Bran allegedly employed workers as young as 14 years of age to perform deboning that is forbidden as a “dangerous job” classification. Minors employed in the plants worked beyond statutory hourly limits were not paid overtime. In addition Bran’s companies retaliated against employees who cooperated with DOL investigators.
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