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Covarrubias v. Captain Charlie's Seafood Inc. - Complaint

Document Date: March 17, 2010
Affiliate: ACLU of North Carolina
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Three Mexican women employed on temporary worker visas in North Carolina have sued Captain Charlie's, a seafood processing company, for unlawfully restricting them to certain work solely because they are women. The lawsuit also claims that the company underpaid them, unlawfully failed to reimburse their travel costs and wrongfully fired them.

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