Legal Opinion
Jorge E. Arriaga v. Florida Pacific Farms, L.L.C.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 11, 2002No. 01-16402PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs-appellants are migrant farm workers from Mexico (the “Farm-workers”) employed by the defendants-ap-pellees Florida Pacific Farms, L.L.C. and Sleepy Creek Farms, Inc. (the “Growers”) during the 1998-1999 strawberry and raspberry seasons. The Farmworkers sued the Growers, alleging a failure by the Growers to comply with the minimum wage provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 203(m) & 206(a), and the terms of the work contracts. Specifically, the FLSA claim asserted that the Growers’ failure to reimburse the Farmworkers’ travel,…
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