Prosecutors going after businesses that don't pay employees

Kathy63 · #1 10-30-2009, 07:04 AM

Look for criminal aliens to start demanding payment from people who had never hired them in the first place.

Ayatollahgondola · #2 10-30-2009, 07:35 AM

I see both good and bad in this,

the DA going after employers is something that we should get behind. This might put a crimp in the number of potential clients at the Day laborer areas. Not that they were good jobs obviously, but less traffic at those sites is going to make it less attractive to newcomers. However...only two employees going unpaid is a bit of a low threshold. Might have some employers who just fell on hard times briefly and did not have the intent of a scammer. Plus, this article does not go in to the specifics of how this law is applied

Kathy63 · #3 10-30-2009, 01:19 PM

Criminal aliens are not going to start giving receipts OR legitimate SSN numbers. To many people who occasionally hire a criminal, they go down the street and pick one up at the corner. When it comes to paying them, it is going to be he said/he said with the employer saying he paid them (or never hired them in the first place) and the criminal claiming he was never paid.