MILAN (AP) — Foreign workers building the vast new U.S. consulate compound in Milan signed agreements at a Milan hotel Wednesday securing payouts averaging 45,000 euros ($50,400) each for alleged labor abuses while working for an American construction company.

More than 60 laborers, mostly from India, signed the deals Wednesday to receive their share of a 31-million-euro (nearly $35 million) settlement agreed last month with Alabama-based Caddell Construction. The signings began Tuesday.

Prosecutors say it is the largest settlement ever for labor exploitation in Europe.

A year ago, University of Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule asked Husker coaching icon Tom Osborne to come offer some words of wisdom to his staff in the campus football complex that now bears Osborne’s name. 

“I remember being surprised when I walked into the room at the number of people there,” Osborne said. “There seems to be an awful lot more people.” 

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers returned to the Statehouse Friday to consider expanding the ceiling on state tax incentives in an effort to secure a $15 billion steel plant project for the state.

President Donald Trump announced the plant Monday alongside Iowa elected officials, heralding the project as a major economic and national security investment.

LINCOLN — In a survey of Nebraska Economic Development staff, roughly half of the current workers heavily criticized the department’s leadership, claiming management cares more about budget cuts and downsizing than taking care of their employees.

“Some days I feel like I could write a 10-page paper on all the ways the agency/organization lack the basic components of an effective organization,” one respondent wrote. “I believe that if this organization was a private corporation, it would be bankrupt.”