Texas Levi Employees Sue Over Re-Entry Plan

By: Workers' Comp Executive

EL PASO -- More than 100 employees at seven Levi's factories in El Paso, TX, are involved in a combined lawsuit claiming that the company's re-entry program for injured workers is intended to force them to quit and to discourage others from filing workers' comp claims.Started in 1993, the re-entry program was designed to respond to the increasing injury costs in the seven plants. The manager of one of the plants claimed that the program saved Levi's $3 million in workers' comp costs.In their l

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