No more double dose of "getting away with it" for US firms who first, avoid hiring Americans to use cheaper migrant workers and then, second, cheat those workers! Thanks Souther Poverty Law Center!
Thousands of Cheated Guestworkers to Recover Lost Wages in SPLC Forestry Case
| |  | | | | | A federal judge's ruling this week means that thousands of foreign guestworkers represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center will recover wages owed to them by one of the nation's largest forestry contractors. U.S. District Court Judge Clarence Cooper found that SPLC lawyers can seek unreimbursed expenses incurred by guestworkers employed by Eller and Sons Trees Inc. of Franklin, Ga. The summary judgment also found that actual damages sought by these workers can exceed $500,000. The employer had sought to cap the damages. |
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