AMS investigation reveals Lowell Livestock Auction Inc. tested its livestock scale on Aug. 9, 2022, and continually weighed livestock on it without a test until March 20, 2024.
The department’s Wage and Hour Division seeks people employed by The Exclusive Poultry, Meza Poultry, Valtierra Poultry, Sullon Poultry or Nollus’s Poultry.
Employees of five California poultry processing companies in La Puente and City of Industry may be owed a share of more than $3.8 million in back wages and damages.
AMS investigation shows that between August 2021 and January 2022, Happy Valley and Bill Chase issued 24 checks in payment for livestock to 21 different livestock sellers that were returned unpaid by the bank.