Posted on 02/03/2011 5:32:04 PM PST by moonshinner_09
A group of workers that Chipotle Mexican Grill fired for being illegal immigrants sued the restaurant chain on Thursday, alleging that it didn’t comply with a Minnesota law requiring all back pay to be distributed promptly.
Last month, Chipotle said it fired a substantial number of its 1,200 Minnesota workers starting in December, after a federal immigration audit found some of them to be illegal immigrants.
Participants in a protest against the firings put the number at 700. The company wouldn’t say how many there were, but a source close to the investigation put the number closer to 350.
Up to 75 of those former workers filed a class-action suit alleging that Chipotle violated the Minnesota Payment of Wages Act, said Greg Nammacher, secretary-treasurer of Service Employees International Union Local 26.
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Did they file this lawsuit from their homes in Mexico? Probably not, eh?
If they’re illegal, how can they sue? If they mess with my Chipotle, I will mess with them.
Mom, can we go out for Anglo food tonight?
They should have worked my last job,
our checks were never late,
but they weren’t good till
the following Wednesday most times,
some times you’d get one check and have
to go cash the last weeks.
Times were hard.
Someone needs to sue the SEIU. There must be some law against having illegal aliens as union members... or maybe not.
Tough hop, homie.....
Bet the SEIU idolizes Cesar Chavez. Except there is one inconvenient fact they overlook. Cesar Chavez was strongly anti illegal immigrant.
What affirmative defense are you thinking about?
Employers who fail to pay wages to illegals get hammered by the law just the same as if they were legal workers — usually double damages and attorney fees.
The point is to discourage employers from paying illegals worse than legal workers.
Now make the pos company and it owners personals liable for all expenses paid by taxpayers supporting their illegal workers.
I thought a law exists that people cannot benefit financially from their crime.
If illegals committed a crime in being here and working,how can they collect any damages?
Zero tolerance for marxists in US government.
Investigate and arrest members of the “Progressive Congressional Caucus”, send the red sons of bitches back underground.
All States right to work states, no forced compulsory union dues in order to work,
Defund the marxist trade and government worker unions.
No one will pay union dues voluntarily.
Smash the left!
See #9 defense, above. It’s against law & public policy in any jurisdiction to allow people to profit from illegal activities, for example, gambling. The courts won’t enforce such bargains.
Getting jobs using false personal information, SS#s, etc., same thing.
They have a lot of chutspah though: they must admit being here in violation of our immigration laws, the reason for their termination, and count on not being arrested and deported. And they apparently hope to recover judgments as class action plaintiffs.
Why can any illegals file lawsuits? I am sick of them getting a windfall when they broke laws to be here in the first place.
no illegal immigrant sat here and was like, hey I’ll sue!!! how many of us have had late/no checks? Some lawyer has taken this, gotten all the workers together, they’ll get their last checks, all $350 worth and the lawyer will collect all fees from Chipotle etc etc.
I went by the downtown Chipotle the other day around noon. The line was around the block. The move to fire the illegals doesn’t appear to have hurt business any.
The bunch of them chained together would have been easy to arrest and deport. They had handcuffed each other.
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