If so what law would I be breaking?
2007-05-22 12:03:06 · 13 answers · asked by Dr.alqpoe 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
I don't know about the legality, but morally it would be wrong.
2007-05-22 12:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by SgtMoto 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All employers must complete an I-9 form at the time of hiring an employee. This form includes a copy of their photo identification card or drivers liscense & a copy of their social security card. If they don't have these 2 pieces of identification, then they should NOT be working for you until they can furnish them. Even if you are hiring them to do manual labor for one day & you decide not to pay them, then I pity what will happen to you tomorrow, because they will get paid...one way or another! It is illegal to hire someone without having state compensation insurance for the workers safety. You could be putting your house on the line, as they can put a lien on it if they do work for you & you do not pay them. They can find a liscensed contractor to lien for them & in the mean time get their paperwork! It's a nasty world for people who don't like to "man-up"!
2007-05-22 12:11:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From what I know of your immigration laws:
1. People who are not in the US legally cannot and should not engage in employment, so the two of you (employer and employee) are breaking a provision of the immigration and nationality act.
2. When you hired the alien, you had an agreement to compensate him for services rendered. Regardless of the illegality of the act that you two have already committed when you hired and he agreed to work for you, if you don't pay him, that would be ETHICALLY wrong as you are or won't pay for the work rendered by your employee.
2007-05-22 12:13:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What you fail to realize is that working in those sweatshops and sweatfarms is a STEP UP for those people over their previous existence. The USA and it's people didn't start out as prosperous. It took many decades of gradually increasing our prosperity so working conditions and salaries improved. I'm reminded of a controversy a few years back where some folks in the USA were outraged about child labor in some foreign clothing factories. To avoid the backlash, the factories fired the kids, many of whom were working to support their families and themselves. End result? Kids and families starving or forced into prostitution because of liberals with good intentions.
2016-05-20 04:33:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure it would be illegal. There is a federal and/or state minimum wage. Those are laws. You could also be charged under anti-slavery laws. You might also want to consider the fact that the IRS might just consider the free labor as an asset to your company and tax you accordingly. It just isn't worth it.
2007-05-22 12:09:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jim T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the exact law, but if you hire and illegal (whether you pay him or not) you are breaking the law. Plus, what a crappy thing to do. Whatever business you run is probably cheap and crappy ... like you are.
2007-05-22 12:28:42 · answer #6 · answered by PhoebeBB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. I have some yard work that I would love to have done for free. Unfortunately, they do not hang around Home Depot or Lowes here in Michigan..
2007-05-22 12:17:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The law of common sense that says this alien has friends and they know where you work.
2007-05-22 12:05:34 · answer #8 · answered by beez 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't be any less illegal than hiring him at all.
Think about it.
2007-05-22 12:33:50 · answer #9 · answered by whiz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he was illegal he wouldn't have REAL proof of citizenship...would he.
And yes...it would be.
wow
2007-05-22 12:06:08 · answer #10 · answered by Angry EX-DEM 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋