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Tyson Foods Fires Managers Who Started Betting Pool on Employees Getting COVID-19

HeadlineDec 17, 2020

Meat producer Tyson Foods has fired managers at an Iowa pork slaughterhouse who allegedly held a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool on how many workers would become infected at their plant. The allegations emerged as part of a lawsuit filed by the family of a former meatpacker who died from COVID-19 in April during an outbreak that killed six workers and sickened over 1,000.

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