United Natural Foods Inc. has earned a top score of 100 in the Disability Equality Index (DEI) and is being recognized as a DEI Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion. 

All along the retail grocery supply chain, companies are stepping up their commitments to ensuring that their employees and customers feel protected and welcome, regardless of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion and other identifying factors.

Shortly following Tyson Foods’ announcement that it would close its Van Buren, Ark., facility, Twin Rivers Foods reached out to Tyson employees with an offer to join its team.

Production facilities operated by Hearthside in Grand Rapids, Mich., were featured in the Times story published Feb. 25 – “Alone and exploited, migrant children work brutal jobs across the US.”

PSSI is to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties after DOL found that at least 102 workers from 13 to 17 years of age were cleaning meatpacking plants.

Eight employees will participate in the pilot program through Perdue’s on-site wellness center.

Teamsters Local 916 is made up of over 4,000 workers in the state of Illinois.

PSSI stated that ending the contract would affect all employees at both locations with those impacted being paid through the end of both contracts, which will end in January 2023.

A fire broke out at a Pilgrim’s Pride broiler room in Moorefield, W. Va., on Dec. 6 around 1:15 a.m., beckoning the help of multiple fire crews.