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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Ex-Kraft Food Safety Whistleblower’s Retaliation Suit Revived - Bloomberg Law News

Kraft Heinz Inc. must face a former employee’s lawsuit alleging the company unlawfully fired him after he raised food safety concerns.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit determined that a reasonable jury could find Wilbert Finley’s food safety complaint contributed to Kraft’s decision to fire him. If Finley didn’t make those food safety complaints, the company may not have made that decision, the appeals court said in reversing the case for further proceedings.

Finley—a former production manager for Kraft—asserted the company violated the Food Safety Modernization Act by firing him because he raised food safety concerns. The ...



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