Company Sues Others For Hiring Illegal Immigrants
A California temporary employment agency that supplies farm workers sued a grower and two competitors last week, alleging the other companies were unfairly cutting labor costs by hiring undocumented workers. This is expected to be only one of many such lawsuits around the country, as businesses become more frustrated by the lack of enforcement of immigration laws by the federal government.
In this particular case, the temporary employment agency is alleging that fruit growers are refusing to hire workers from them, because the growers can hire cheaper, undocumented, workers from other temp agencies. Such a case would probably be difficult to win, but could certainly have a deterrent effect on employers.
