Eurofresh Inc. has finalized an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division to pay $937,460 in back wages and interest to 587 U.S. workers to settle charges that the company gave preferential treatment to temporary foreign workers.
The agreement, which converted most of the government's original claim of more than $6 million to an unsecured bankruptcy claim, was included in Eurofresh's bankruptcy reorganization plan. That plan was approved in late October, and the company emerged from bankruptcy in mid-November.
The Labor Department had alleged that Eurofresh — a major hydroponic vegetable grower with large greenhouse operations near Willcox — violated labor laws by illegally firing 527 U.S. workers and giving preferential treatment including better hours to foreign workers hired under the H-2A temporary worker program.

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