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Article

31 Dec 2003

Author:
Ashfaque Aswapan, India-West

Undocumented Worker Wins Precedent-Setting Case For Workplace Rights [USA]

A San Francisco federal jury has awarded an illegal Indian immigrant $200,000 in damages in a case where he accused his employer of reporting him to the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a retaliatory move...According to a press release from the LAC Employment Law Center, Jutla..."forced Singh to work-without pay-12 hours a day, seven days a week, for nearly three years" in Jutla's various gas stations.