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Post subject: Better have your green card if you want a job in N. GA
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:43 am
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Apparently it is not hard enough to get a job in N. GA. Now if you are a citizen you can't get hired if you don't have your green card. We can be assured that Mullis is going to even make it harder with his immigration reform he is claiming. Soon we will be stopped like the old Russian movies...Papers Please.
DALTON, WHITFIELD COUNTY (WRCB) - In the hiring process at Garland, a U.S. citizen says he was asked to produce a green card, and when he didn't he says Garland withdrew his offer of employment. He then filed a complaint, and the lawsuit quickly followed.
"If you are a natural born citizen, you don't need a green card," it's simple says Edgar Rincon, the owner of Servicios Latinos in Dalton.
And that's one reason the Department of Justice is suing a local company.
The law says companies have to use the same verification standards for everyone. Garland hired an individual who spoke little English. And asked for his green card before he could start work.
But since he was a U.S. citizen, he didn't have one. Without a green card, the company pulled their offer.
Rincon, who helps Dalton's Hispanic community with problems like this says he can see why the company would want to protect themselves. But "On the other hand, if I say I'm a U.S. citizen that should be, and is how my social and ID that should be enough," says Rincon.
We had a questions for Garland, who told Channel 3 in a statement they have complied fully with the law and added "Garland sales does not engage in any practice or pattern of discrimination."
Edgar says, the lack of English causes a communication break down all too often. "When I don't speak the English language fluently, I find myself having problems when I go ask for a job, and that's the case with this company."
After the disgruntled individual filed a complaint, the Department of Justice launched an investigation on Garland. The end result was a lawsuit. Garland has 30 days to respond after they are served.
Garland has been in business for more than 25 years, and in its statement they said this is its first being accused of any type of discrimination.
Post subject: Re: Better have your green card if you want a job in N. GA
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:30 am
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I guess we need to get over the fact that ALL of us has to have some form of ID be it a photo ID, Passport, Driver Lisenes, Birth Cert., Social Security Card ( How many of you can remember when the SS Card said on the face "Not to be used for Indentification purposes" on it) or in some cases a Green Card.
Post subject: Re: Better have your green card if you want a job in N. GA
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:43 pm
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Wonder if they ran his name through the instant check program, e-verify, that all employers are required, in theory, to use now days?
_________________ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. .. those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C.S. Lewis
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