That's crap.
Well if that's the issue it sounds like the majority is just taking the law literally. Somebody needs to fix that law.
the ILLEGAL folks
Undocumented folks? Where I come from, they're called illegal alien lawbreakers.
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Employers hire illegals because they're cheap and compliant.
When they become neither, employers will either find illegals from another country, or hire Americans.
So, if employers can be made to think that hiring illegals is going to cost them more than it's worth, that's a good thing.
If the black-letter law provides for compensation for people "whether lawfully or unlawfully employed," it means what it says. Changing that wording is a matter for the legislature, not the courts. For Harrell to decide on his own, in the face of a clearly-worded statute, that the language thereof applies only to minors is nothing more or less than judicial activism. And we're against that, right?
The solution to a dumbass law is to repeal or amend it, not to appeal to judges to ignore it. It's hardly consistent to rail against "activist judges" and then berate the Maryland judges for being insufficiently activist in overturning or reinterpreting the law as passed by elected representatives of the people.
The employer should be heavily fined and forced to pay the illegal's lost wages and his bus fare back to his country of origin.
Simply amazing how many 'mental midgets' there are making law in this country.
Illegal aliens should be deported. Since they committed crime by working here, they surely should not be given workmans comp. Any who applies should be arrested on the spot and deported.
Heh. Suddenly those illegal aliens aren't such cheap labor after all.
When there is a trench that collapses, invariably you are going to find someone at the bottom of the pile who does not have a green card."
Keeping my thougts to myself.
Ping
The fact is that a lot of employers today are operating with illegal alien employees just the way the factories did in the late 19th and early 20th century before all the labor laws were enacted. They are paying them less than minimum wage, not paying overtime, and not providing for the safety of these workers. It's atrocious. These companies need to be taken to task in some way for first hiring so many illegals and second for exploiting and abusing them to pad their profits.
The employer should have told the judges the "undocumented worker" was paid "undocumented compensation".
"whether lawfully or unlawfully employed"
great now made men get unemployment insurance when they run out of people to whack.
Welcome to the People's Republic. Where resources are applied from each according to his ability to each according to his need. Or political affiliation.
a.k.a. "The land of peasant living." Now you know why. 'Pod.
The poor guy, he cuts his hand and likely has to worry about paying his in state tuition for his 5 kids.
Uh, does that tell anyone in our government who loves the importation of illegal aliens that some of these workers are not qualified to do these dangerous jobs?