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Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier into Upheaval(nytimes.com)
14 points by gorbachev 9 months ago | 9 comments
  • imsofuture9 months ago

    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.

    • danudey9 months ago |parent

      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.

      • nikau9 months ago |parent

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

    • Pet_Ant9 months ago |parent

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

  • bediger40009 months ago

    Here's the corporate backlash to Mass Deportations Now.

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

  • tibbydudeza9 months ago

    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.

  • martinky249 months ago

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

  • rhapsodic9 months ago

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  • MrMan9 months ago

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