Labor/Employment
Sep. 10, 2010
Immigration and Labor Law Clash
Workers who recently sued a Fullerton-based lab equipment manufacturer have highlighted an increasingly chaotic maze for employers, workers and lawyers on both sides: the clash of labor and immigration laws.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - For six years, Hugo Alcantar Fernandez worked 14 hours a day welding plastics on the factory floor of a Southern California lab equipment manufacturer.
He says the extra hours never translated into overtime pay. Fernandez, 28, claims he and dozens of other Latino noncitizen, immigrant workers were singled out because of their race, and swept into the lower rung of a two-...
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