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Undocumented Workers
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Donald Trump Paid $1.4 Million in a Dispute Over Undocumented Workers. Read the Newly Unsealed Legal Papers
Ryan Teague Beckwith for Time reports that Donald Trump paid $1.4 million in 1998 to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged he stiffed a union pension fund by employing undocumented…
Immigration View
ICE Levies Largest Settlement Ever: Asplundh Tree Expert Co To Pay $95 Million
Asplundh Tree Expert Co., one of the largest privately owned corporations in the country, with 30,000 employees and 3.5 billion in annual sales, according to Forbes, has been ordered to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Redefining the Legality of Undocumented Work by Jennifer J. Lee
Redefining the Legality of Undocumented WorkJennifer J. Lee, California Law Review, ForthcomingAbstractUndocumented workers face a new harsh reality under the Trump administration. Federal law’s prohibition of undocumented work has facilitated exploitation…
Immigration Blog
Evidence of Immigration Status Blocked by Courts
Could barring evidence in court of undocumented workers’ immigration status actually prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants? It could, according to one Illinois district court judge. Please read the full…
Texas Construction Law Blog
ICE is coming for Undocumented Workers – How to Prevent Corporate Frostbite
By J.P. Vogel, Admin
Co-author: Michael Kelsheimer Whatever your political views, undocumented workers and the businesses that knowingly or unknowingly employ them are coming under the microscope. If you compile recent headlines, you’ll know…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Workers’ Compensation and Undocumented Workers: Coverage versus Retaliation
Our own Judge David Torrey has done an excellent job on this blog bringing readers up to speed on the scope of workers’ compensation coverage of undocumented workers in the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Labor Day Movie: The Hand That Feeds (Documentary 2015)
The Hand That Feeds Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma López unites his undocumented immigrant coworkers to fight abusive conditions at a popular New York restaurant chain.At a popular bakery café, residents of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Art of Ramiro Gomez
Writing about Lhakpa Sherpa earlier today got me thinking about the near-invisibility of certain workers in the United States. And that, in turn, got me thinking about L.A. artist Ramiro…
La Revue
Remise des documents par le sous-traitant au donneur d’ordre : une obligation à suivre à la lettre
Cass. Soc 11 février 2016, n°15-10168 Afin de lutter contre le travail dissimulé et contre l’emploi d’étrangers sans titre de travail, les sociétés doivent, au moment de la conclusion d’un…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump Attacked for Being a Hypocrite on Immigration
In recent days, Donald Trump has been attacked on the immigration front. The attacks have focused not on his strident immigration enforcement positions, however. They instead have focused whether, as a entrepreneur, he…