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Jamaican guest workers to split $2 million under settlement with resort (ABC News)

December 21, 2016

About 240 Jamaican workers at a luxury golf resort in South Carolina are splitting $2 million under a deal to settle a lawsuit alleging they had been cheated, ABC News reports. The order signed Dec. 16 by US District Judge Richard Gergel applies to a pool of Jamaican guest workers who worked for Kiawah Island Golf Resort on H-2B visas. The program allows US employers to bring foreign nationals to the country to fill temporary non-agricultural jobs. Several guest workers filed a class-action lawsuit last year accusing Kiawah of failing to properly pay them by deducting housing and transportation costs from their pay.