How do you like this concept terminates more than 200 employees after an IRS audit finds that they had provide?
Question: How do you like this concept terminates more than 200 employees after an IRS audit finds that they had provide?
How do you like this concept terminates more than 200 employees after an IRS audit finds that they had provided ‘invalid or fraudulent’ Social Security numbers?No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month and now find themselves in a precarious employment market, without severance pay or medical insurance. It wasn’t a hot tip or an undercover informant that helped seal their fates, but a computer check of Social Security numbers.
A desktop raid” is how the workers’ representative, John M. Grant, vice president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, described the scenario.
Overhill, a $ 200-million-a-year company that provides frozen meals for clients such as American Airlines, Panda Express, Safeway and Jenny Craig, says it had no choice: An Internal Revenue Service audit found that 260 workers had provided “invalid or fraudulent” Social Security numbers. The government took no action against the workers. But Overhill did: All of the employees were fired May 31.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-desktop-raid12-2009jun12,0,783064.story
Should of hired American citizens to begin with and if this were reverse say it was in Mexico and it was Americans, Mexico would say the same thing should of hired Mexicans first
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Answer by Dina W
If the company had not hired illegals in the first place, there would be no problem.
Not feeling bad for anyone who tries to save a buck by hiring people not allowed to work in this country. Should of hired American citizens to begin with.
Those people fired were lucky. Because none of them were deported. They lost their jobs but they were not sent to jail or sent back to their country. I don’t think they have a right to protest what the company did. They had no right to work there. I feel sorry for the kids since it isn’t their fault but the adults knew they were using fake ID and SS#. Although some of these people left their countries because they felt they had no other choice, they should understand the risks being in the U.S. illegally. If I had to leave and go to another country as an illegal, I’m not saying that I would never do it if the alternative was starving to death in my own country–but I would know that I risked being shot or thrown in jail depending on what country it was that I infiltrated and worked without the proper/authentic documents.