Former Employees Sue Kraft Heinz Co. Over Discontinued Charity Program

Three former H.J. Heinz employees are suing the Kraft Heinz Co. because the company ended a program that would have made large donations to charity in those employees' names.

The H.J. Heinz Co. in 1989 offered the Key Employee Charitable Award Program, in which eligible top employees could donate money each year for five years to the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation. In exchange, the Heinz Co. would make a posthumous donation of up to $3 million in the employee's name to a charity of his or her choice, according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas.