Overview
- Restitution will be distributed to workers injured between 2016 and 2024, with each eligible person guaranteed at least $1,000.
- Alba will fund a $100,000 independent settlement administrator to manage claims and payments.
- The company must implement workplace reforms, terminate an implicated foreman, and submit to oversight by the attorney general’s office for at least three years with a possible extension to six.
- Investigators found managers told employees not to file workers’ compensation claims, directed them to preferred clinics, and interfered with medical treatment by misrepresenting how injuries occurred.
- Retaliatory tactics included flyers offering $5,000 bounties and at least 60 unlawful disclosures of workers’ identities; the company neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing and its owner did not comment.