Posted on 05/20/2010 6:59:19 AM PDT by epithermal
Two former employees of Stemilt Growers say the company allowed them to work for years with invalid work documents but then fired them after they made claims for on-the-job injuries.
Ricardo Montes and Rodrigo Herrera sued the Wenatchee-based fruit giant April 26 in Chelan County Superior Court.
The two men claim Stemilt officials knew they were working with false Social Security numbers yet continued to employ them for several years. It was only after they suffered injuries that they were fired and denied medical benefits because they did not have the proper employment documents, they claim in the lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at wenatcheeworld.com ...
Sounds like some PRO illegals lawyer is looking for a big payday.
Oh what a tangle web we weave...
“Two former employees of Stemilt Growers say the company allowed them to work for years with invalid work documents but then fired them after they made claims for on-the-job injuries.”
TFB
Since they are illegals, they should have no rights to sue anyone in this country. I would say go after the company but only because they hired these people. As for the law suit, it should be dismissed.
This is just another result of liberal policies.
WE had an employer in our city that hired illegals. About once a year they would be raided by INS. This continued until it got publicized that this always occurred right before a payday.
If you were working illegally, then compensation for back injury on the job is the fruit of the poisoned tree and disallowed.
Isn’t using a fake SS# a felony?
>> I would say go after the company but only because they hired these people. As for the law suit, it should be dismissed.
Agree.
And... go after the employer with a vengeance.
Hiring an illegal should be a felony for *all* company officers who knew about it, or should have known. Mandatory ten years in Federal prison.
I was scum until Jesus saved me.
My understanding of repentence and forgiveness sometimes interferes with the rule of law.
This case sounds very similar to another troubling one reported here some months ago -- involving an employer who contested a workers' compensation claim on the basis that the employee in question was an illegal alien. The article posted here was about a court verdict in the illegal alien's favor. I think the court made the correct decision in that case.
“If you were working illegally, then compensation for back injury on the job is the fruit of the poisoned tree and disallowed.”
But then the profits made by the company by means of the employment would also be “fruit of the poisoned tree and disallowed.”
Right?
A pox on both their houses.
That they say this does not make it true. If they used the documents to report income to the government and complied with all the labor laws, then I'd be more willing to cut them some slack. Do we have proof that they did not learn of the fraud while investigating the injury claims?
I call BS.
IF they wre working & receiving W-2’s at the end of the year-—sending a copy of such W-2 to the Social Security Admin at Jan 31 of new year would have triggered a mis-match.
It used to take almost 6 months to get back a “Non-Match” notice from the SS Admin. Now- it takes only about 6 weeks.
IF every time a Mis-Match showed up, these 2 provided ‘new documents’ and bought another year’s time, then for sure employer is wrong.
IF they were “working there for years” this would have been a problem much earlier.
If there are more illegal intruders working at this company- throw the book at them & make sure all of them are deported—preferably branded on their forehead.
Lots of those deported come right back into the states within 5 days. They just head to another part of the country, and the fun starts all over again.
Ping!
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