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Record $11M immigration settlementWal-Mart Stores has agreed to pay $11 million to settle charges that the retail giant used hundreds of illegal aliens to clean its stores throughout the United States from 1998 to 2003. In addition, 12 contractors that provided the illegal workers will pay $4 million in fines. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the $11 million figure is four times larger than any other single payment received by the government in an illegal alien employment case. Wal-Mart has also agreed to create an internal program to ensure future compliance with immigration laws by Wal-Mart contractors and Wal-Mart itself. In two separate investigations, U.S. authorities arrested a total of 350 illegal immigrants contracted as janitors at Wal-Mart stores. Attorneys involved in the case say many of the workers worked seven days or nights a week without overtime pay or injury compensation, and those who worked nights were often locked in the store until morning. About a third of the workers have since been deported to their home countries. Wal-Mart does not face criminal charges, but has acknowledged that it should have been better at putting safeguards in place to make sure contractors were hiring legal workers. Click here for more information.
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