Friday, July 13, 2007
Introduction to Business Immigration Blogger
Choudhury-Goodman Immigration and Commercial Law Affiliates is an immigration law affiliation based in New York City and Westchester County, New York dedicated to providing legal counsel and advice to businesses and individuals on matters of immigration law. We hope that this site will become a source of learning and dialogue between and among persons interested in following developments in U.S. Immigration Law. Because the field is so broad, our preferred focus is on the needs of the business community, including companies--big and small, start-ups, individual entrepreneurs, employees etc. We hope, with the input of the business community to better understand its immigration needs, with the view to helping to create a more positive environment for globalization in the New York region and beyond. Robert I. Goodman, Esq.
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I am the principal of Robert Ian Goodman, Esq. one of the affiliated firms in C-G Immigration and Commercial Law Affiliates. Welcome to our blog on immigration law. One recent news item of note for employers is a recent Queens County Supreme Court decision, holding that in an action for lost present and future wages, brought by two undocumented employees, that the defendant employer could not inquire into the plaintiffs' legal authority to work in the U.S. Finding that the employer displayed a pattern of disregared for the immigration laws by hiring undocumented workers, Justice Rolando T Acosta, held that the employer was now precluded from seeking information on the employees' undocumented status. For the lawyers among you, the opinion citation is Gomez v. F&T Int'l (Flushing, New York) LLC, 101817/05 and appears at page 22 of the New York Law Journal of July 16, 2007. This decision and the discussion in the court's opinion regarding other cases involving wage suits brought by undocumented workers, highlights the fact that undocumented aliens can have standing to bring wage actions (in addition to personal injury actions) against employers under New York law.
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