tailgater wrote:If the worker is here illegally, then they shouldn't be due anything.
Sure, the hotel may have screwed them out of some promised wages, but by applying for a job without at least a work visa, the worker is lying to the hotel to begin with.
I agree with dealing with both the illegal and the employer.
Why should the hotel profit by not paying, even if the worker was illegally employed w/o the employer's knowledge? On the other hand, why should the employee benefit by working illegally (and possibly lying or providing fraudulent documents)?
It just seems to me that the agreement is labor for pay.
How about pay them for their labor and seize their pay as part of the penalty for working illegally and for the cost of detention and deportation?
This is really another important social policy issue- with no empirically right answer.