Illegal foreign workers have employee rights
Lapsed work permits or lack of contracts does not give employers a licence to mistreat staff
17 October 2019 - 09:08
Lack of awareness of constitutional and labour-law protections of employees from foreign countries has prompted many employers to mistreat illegally employed staff.
That is, employers have paid illegal immigrants low wages, deprived them of employee benefits and dismissed them at will. They have based their actions on the assumption that their so-called “illegal employees” are unable to use the law to take the employer to task. However, this type of employer is labouring under a dangerous misapprehension...
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