They wouldn’t be breaking the law, by hiring illegals by any chance? Just wondering.
Are there economic consequences to following the law? Maybe.
Your question raises a very good and generally misunderstood point dhs12345. When a prospective employee walks into my office looking for farm labor work and presents what appears to be a valid identification I hire him just as someone would hire someone at Microsoft. I submit all of the required paperwork to federal and state agencies and I pay wages and taxes as required by law. That is what every farmer I know does. I recognize there are bad players out there who take advantage of people and smuggle them in backs of trucks and pay below minimum wage but they are the minority. The law used to require us to notify the employee if we received a no match letter from SS and it was the employee’s responsibility to contact SS and get it corrected. If I terminated an employee because I receive a no match letter then I have opened myself up to a discrimination lawsuit. Bush tried to change the no match procedure to have the employer resolve the discrepancy with the SS but law suits from immigration groups and democrats derailed that. So even though I am completely following the law as it now exists, well meaning people including those on this board believe the farmer is the criminal here.