Carlos Caudillo and his family have filed a complaint against Advance Services, Inc.; Corteva Agriscience, Inc.; and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. for reneging on promises of employment and failing to adequately pay them for their time while employed.
The plaintiffs allege that Advance Services, on behalf of the other two defendants, breached the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA) by making false promises as to how long they would be employed, for how many hours per week they would work, and for how much they would be paid.
According to the complaint, in late April and early May 2019, Advance Services recruited the Caudillo family to work for Corteva Agriscience and Pioneer Hi-Bred for a total period of eighteen weeks, the first six in Georgia, and each subsequent six in other states. During meetings with the family, the representative of Advance Services promised each adult seventy hours of work per week, with time and a half pay for each hour worked over forty. He also allegedly promised paid childcare for the minors. The family was to be given vans and a $50 gas card to travel from south Texas, where the family resides, to the worksite in Georgia. None of these guarantees were reaffirmed in writing, the complaint saidc.
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