Labor/Employment
Mar. 24, 2012
The undocumented worker defense in employment cases
What legal recourse do undocumented workers have against their employers? By Michael L. Ludwig and Howard M. Knee of Blank Rome LLP
If a company doctor is fired because of his age, race, religion, or sex and the company discovers, in defending a discrimination action, that the discharged employee was not actually a doctor at all, is he or she still entitled to relief? Substitute the masquerading doctor with an undocumented worker, and you have the scenario before the state Supreme Court in Salas v. Sierra Chemical Co., 2011 DJDAR 16670.
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