After six years of intense and complex litigation, Mohawk Industries and employees who claimed the carpet-maker had depressed wages by hiring undocumented workers have agreed to settle for $18 million.
U.S. District Judge Harold W. Murphy granted the parties’ motion to preliminarily approve the settlement and certify the class Monday and set a hearing on final approval July 22. “We’ve been up and down the appellate system, and we thought it was a good time to settle,” said Juan P. Morillo, a partner at Clifford Chance in Washington who represented Mohawk. He said the parties reached an agreement to settle during mediation before Hunter R. Hughes III of Rogers & Hardin after months of an “amicable” yet sometimes “tortured process.”
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