"You need to stay up to the minute on developments," said Mark S. Goldstein, a labor and employment lawyer at Reed Smith. "We have to be able to be flexible and pivot quite quickly, with the patchwork of employment laws at the state and local level."
The Justice Department says the companies have been engaged in a multiyear conspiracy to exchange information about the wages and benefits of workers at poultry processing plants to drive down employee competition in the marketplace.