YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. – Yakima Valley farm workers involved in a class-action lawsuit since 2012 against a management company for wrongful firing will receive their settlement payments Sunday according to a news release from Columbia Legal Services.

NW Management and several other companies agreed to a settlement payment after several years of litigation according to the news release.

Columbia Legal Services says a federal judge approved the agreement and ruled that over $1 million be awarded to the over 700 people involved in the class-action lawsuit. Each worker will receive $1,000 – $3,000 depending on how long they worked.

The class-action lawsuit was originally filed in 2012 when ten farm workers said they had been fired by NW Management as retaliation for calling 911 when their job foreman fired off a gun in the orchards to intimidate the workers.

Several of the workers had been employed at the Alexander and Independence orchards near Sunnyside for a decade according to Columbia Legal Services.

The federal courts heard the case and federal Judge Thomas Rice awarded over $1 million to the class of farmworkers in 2013.

Columbia Legal Services says the money will be distributing the money to the farm workers on Sunday, July 24 at Radio KDNA in Granger.