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Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employees at a plant operated by Tyson Foods Inc. should be awarded $5.8 million in unpaid wages. The court ruled 6-2 in favor of the workers who filed the class action lawsuit. Tyson had argued that some of the workers who filed the lawsuit were actually fully compensated. Tyson reportedly underpaid its workers for the time they spent putting on protective gear and walking between work stations. The company reported based its pay on the assumption that it took each worker the same amount of time to perform these tasks.