Four farms in Hawaii will pay $2.4 million to settle with 500 Thai workers after a U.S. District Court ruled in March the farms’ labor contractor was liable for harassment and discrimination based on the workers’ national origin for incidents that took place from 2003 to 2007, the EEOC announced Tuesday.

The EEOC named the farms and labor contractor — Global Horizons of Beverly Hills, Calif. — as defendants in the case, claiming they were joint employers. Global Horizons and a farm, Maui Pineapple Company, still remain as defendants in the case.

Workers came from Thailand under the H-2A temporary visa, which required they be provided food and housing aside from pay for work performed, according to the EEOC. However, the Thai workers were charged recruitment fees that put them into a situation of debt bondage. In addition, they were subjected to varying degrees of denial or delay of pay, monitoring of movements and confiscating of passports, production quotas not required of other workers, denial of adequate food and water, and unsanitary, overcrowded living conditions.

Farms involved include Mac Farms, which will pay $1.6 million; Kauai Coffee, which will pay $425,000; Kelena Farms, which will pay $275,000; and Captain Cook Coffee, which will pay $100,000, according to the EEOC. Kelena and Captain Cook also offered new jobs for the workers.

The trial against Global Horizons in Hawaii is set for November 18 and will determine the amount of money the company will pay and measures required to prevent future abuses, according to the EEOC.