Posted on 07/08/2009 8:28:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The firing of more than two dozen Hispanic employees from Taco Bell outlets in Madison and Sun Prairie has sparked a protest by 16 local members of the clergy.
"It troubles us on a moral level if hard-working people are being treated with such a lack of respect and dignity," states a letter to Greg Creed, president of Taco Bell Corp. of Irvine, Calif.
• Government rules for “no-match” employees • MarketWatch page on Yum! Brands Inc. • Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice • Workers Rights Center A company spokesman denied wrongdoing. "The federal government notified us that the Social Security numbers of some of our employees did not match up with their records," corporation spokesman Rob Poetsch said in an e-mailed statement Wednesday. "We accordingly asked these employees to clear up the discrepancy and provided them several months to do so. At all times, Taco Bell has taken into account both our legal obligations and the well-being of our employees."
The Social Security Administration sends employers "no-match" letters to help ensure that money withheld from paychecks is credited to the correct worker. Employers are required only to tell workers about the letters and to correct records as needed, according to the U.S. Social Security Administration Verification Service Web site.
"A mismatch is not a basis, in and of itself, for you to take any adverse action against an employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing or discriminating," the federal Web site advises employers.
About 19 of the former Taco Bell workers, with an average of seven years seniority, have filed complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission in Milwaukee, said Patrick Hickey, director of the nonprofit Workers’ Rights Center in Madison, which helped the workers file the complaints. The complaints are pending.
"All these workers provided the necessary documentation when they were hired and there is no obligation for either Taco Bell or the workers to repeat that process," Hickey said.
The clergy letter to Taco Bell was dated June 20 under the letterhead of the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice of South Central Wisconsin.
"Necessary documentation" doesn't mean it was valid documentation.
So what if it was phoney documentation or some American citizen's social security number they used when they were first hired.
If you've been in a Taco Bell recently, you probably noticed that only Spanish is spoken in the kitchen. As in most other restaurants.
So they fired the only people at Taco Bell who know anything about Mexican food?
Political action is not the church’s domain.
Seems like the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justiceshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
of South Central Wisconsin support crime.They are not followers of Yah'shua.
Following this line of logic, if I file a tax return which was duly accepted by the IRS, then I am under no obligation to repeat that process if called in for an audit or asked for further documentation of my deductions. Wouldn't that be only fair?
2.Just because one is from Mexico, doesn't mean one knows anything about Mexican food. I have evidence of this.
Taco Bell doesn’t want to pay wages that would give them real legal workers. I can show them plenty of resturants where all the workers are legal. Just use E varify.
Taco Bell doesn’t want to pay wages that would give them real legal workers. I can show them plenty of resturants where all the workers are legal. Just use E varify.
In my town it's Tagalog.
Nor is it the church’s place to help criminals continue their criminal activity. Obviously, the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice is an apostate group.
Maybe now they’ll hire some real Americans that speak English while ordering in the drive-thru.
Part of what's going on here is someone has the idea that to make a good taco you gotta' be Mexican.
Around here we have hardly any Mexicans ~ just mostly Salvadorans ~ and they make tacos just as well. Plus, they have Pakistanis and Indians working in the taco joints and they obey the rules about "washing hands".
Legal or not...no self-respecting hispanic works or eats at Taco Bell./s
Kind'a out-dated web site but with a valid URL.....
We don’ need no stinking IDs.
Nope, never has been. /s
LOL
And I get beat up when I crticize churchs for - in some cases - acting outside of the law.
Don’t get me started on the doggone ‘soup kitchens’ and the rats they bring to neighborhoods....
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