If you read carefully it sounds like the company has to pay the benefits, maybe the workers comp was mentioned by the judge generically or he meant the employer has to pay the same benefits workers comp would on a legal employee. Not sure which it is. The reporter did a really lousy job, and even though I read it twice I am not sure if it is to be paid by company, as it sounds in one part of the story- or if the judge actually order WC to cover it. Just not a well written article.
Perhaps you're right, but answer me this: do you think the company is just going to eat the cost and not pass it on to consumers? History is an excellent indicator that the consumers will bear the brunt of this free ride the illegal alien is getting.
If this had happened to an American in Mexico, what do you think the American would get? Answer me that.