A Smithfield Foods employee, along with a local advocacy group, have filed a lawsuit alleging such performance pressure at a Missouri plant that workers are reluctant to cover their mouths when coughing or wipe their faces after sneezing.
The worker, who features anonymously in the complaint filed in a federal court Thursday, along with the Rural Community Workers Alliance, whose membership includes other Smithfield employees, claim in the lawsuit that the company has failed to adequately protect workers at a Missouri plant amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
