Monday, March 16, 2009

Illegal or not, immigrants want pay

Eight complaints have been filed against a cleaning contractor who does not pay undocumented workers and then threatens them if they complain. Advocate groups are helping them now. - - Donna Poisl

By Liz Mineo/Daily News staff

Local immigrant advocates are growing concerned about a trend among cleaning subcontractors of failing to pay wages to their undocumented workers and of threatening them with reporting them to immigration authorities, if they complain.

Workers have brought their grievances against two Massachusetts-based subcontractors and two national cleaning firms to Framingham's MetroWest Immigrant Worker Center, which is helping them file complaints with the Attorney General's Fair Labor Division to get their wages paid.

An attorney with Greater Boston Legal Service is representing the workers.
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