Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier into Upheaval

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14 points·gorbachev··7 comments

I don't really care if companies are finding it hard to suddenly abide by the law. That was your burden from the start and you chose to avoid it.

If your competitors are doing and you were either forced to follow or go out of business… they can have my sympathies.

In this case, they were filling positions through a staffing agency, which (in some cases, at least) can mean that the staffing agency was 'hiring' them and then contracting them to Jabil.

In that case, it would mean that Jabil had no knowledge of, nor reason to have knowledge of, their immigration status. They paid the staffing agency to supply X workers, X workers showed up to do the work, and they assumed that the agency did their due diligence (i.e. followed the law).

This leads Jabil to discover two things:

1. Their staffing agency was breaking the law on a large scale 2. There aren't enough people in the area to actually fill available jobs

In this circumstance (assuming I'm right about contracting out to the staffing agency), Jabil didn't do anything wrong and now they're up the creek, metaphorically speaking.

And I'm sure they had no idea what was happening and using it as a loophole for cheap labour

Here's the corporate backlash to Mass Deportations Now.

The deportations will be low in number, high in propaganda, just like The Wall.

I think the first deportations should target Tyson Foods plants and other companies known to depend on undocumented immigrant labour.

Make e-verification the law and fines bigger - not because Americans don't want to do that kind of work but because of the low wages.

Talking about going to Chicago and New York first shows me it is just blowing smoke.

The CEO in the story, Geetesh Goyal, seems exceptionally scummy.

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