A group of 52 Indian men have been awarded over $ 1.2 million in a lawsuit against their former employer, John Pickle Co. for fraud, false imprisonment and civil rights violations.
"Defendants recruited Indian workers in India, brought them to the United States, housed and fed them separately from the non-Indian JPC employees, identified them as Indians and made numerous discriminatory comments about their ancestry, ethnic background, culture, and country," wrote Federal judge Clair V Egan.
The verdict comes more than four years after the workers left the west Tulsa (Oklahoma) factory, where they were forced to work long hours for only a few dollars per day. The men accused the company of making them live in a dormitory on the factory grounds and keeping them from leaving the factory grounds even when off-duty.
If divided equally, each worker might receive more than $20,000.
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