Tennessee Court Gives No Quarter to Fired Undocumented Immigrant

Tennessee’s workers’ compensation statute allows injured workers to recoup benefits regardless of whether they are lawfully employed. In a recent case, a West Tennessee federal district court considered whether an undocumented immigrant could file a lawsuit against his former employer, whom he claims fired him in retaliation for pursuing workers’ comp. Source: Kameleon007 / iStock / Getty Facts Born in Mexico, Ricardo Torres moved to the United States without documentation in 1997. Later, he applied for a job with Precision Industries, Inc., a small company in Whiteville. When he applied for the job at Precision, he gave a false Social Security number (SSN). Precision hired him in early 2011 without realizing he was an undocumented immigrant. Precision claimed it learned in early 2012 that Tennessee law required employers to review all of their employees’ documentation by 2013 to ensure they were lawfully authorized to work in the United States.…

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