By illegally hiring undocumented alien labor, Colin was able to hire cheaper labor and compete unfairly. The violation of 1324(a) alleged by the complaint was a proximate cause of Colin’s ability to underbid the plaintiffs and take business from them.

Commercial Cleaning Services Corp. v. Colin Service Systems, LLC., 271 F.3d 374 (2d Cir. 2001)

Perdue Farm Class Action

This is a RICO class action brought against the plant managers and human resources personnel at Perdue Farms, Inc. for hiring illegal aliens and for falsely attesting on I-9 Forms that illegal aliens presented genuine work authorization documents. This class action is brought on behalf of all the legally authorized, hourly paid workers, nationwide, at Perdue from 2006 through the present, to compensate them for the “wage depression” (i.e. below market wages) caused by the Defendants’ illegal hiring practices.

The complaint alleges that the scheme was conducted and carried out at the following poultry processing facilities owned and operated by Perdue: Accomac and Bridgewater, Virginia; Concord, North Carolina; Cromwell, Kentucky; Dillon, South Carolina; Dothan, Alabama; Georgetown, Delaware; Lewistown, North Carolina; Milford, Delaware; Monterey, Tennessee; Perry, Georgia; Rockingham, North Carolina; Salisbury, Maryland; and Washington, Indiana.

If you are a former or current worker of Perdue at any of these locations, you may be part of this class action. Please contact us if you have any information about the issues below:

  1. Hiring workers who are known to the HR staff to be in the U.S. illegally and using false documents;
  2. Hiring workers who cannot speak English while claiming to be U.S. Citizens;
  3. Falsely completing I-9 Forms;
  4. Hiring workers who have previously been employed at Perdue under
    different names;
  5. Coaching illegal aliens at the time of hire to claim a high numbers of dependents on their tax forms to reduce tax withholding;
  6. Raids by INS or the Department of Homeland Security;
  7. Recruiting illegal aliens from local trailer parks and/or from out of state;
  8. Supervisors making jokes about illegal aliens or threatening to replace legal workers with illegal workers;
  9. Illegal aliens purchasing fake documents from plant supervisors or human resource personnel; and
  10. Illegal aliens paying money “under the table” to obtain jobs at the Plant

Even if you are not part of the class, if you have information that can help our case, please contact us immediately.

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