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Litigation

Dec. 2, 2000

Suit Claims Grocery Stores Conducted Illegal Hiring

LOS ANGELES - For six years, young immigrants from Mexico found work as graveyard-shift janitors in supermarkets in Southern California through an informal network of "recruiters" who paid the often undocumented workers in cash or personal checks, without deductions for taxes, Social Security or disability insurance, according to a complaint filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

By Ed Kimble
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - For six years, young immigrants from Mexico found work as graveyard-shift janitors in supermarkets in Southern California through an informal network of "recruiters" who paid the often undocumented workers in cash or personal checks, without deductions for taxes, Social Security or disability...

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