Work 84 hours a week and earn $250
July 15th, 2009 by Cliff Bostock in RestaurantsThe Atlanta Business Chronicle reports on the conviction of a Duluth man, Laing Yang, for harboring aliens. I felt kind of of sympathetic toward him until I read the second paragraph below:
Yang had previously operated an employment agency in Atlanta from 2001 to 2003, which found jobs in Chinese restaurants, predominantly for illegal Hispanic workers. Yang returned to the employment agencies and his illegal activity in November 2007. Yang was fluent in Spanish and two Chinese dialects and he served as the broker between the illegal workers and Chinese restaurants looking for cheap labor. Yang was able to place these illegal workers in jobs and also provide the illegal workers’ transportation to the restaurants without any initial payment by the workers. The transportation fee and Yang’s commission would be paid up-front by the restaurant owner, who would then deduct that cost from the wages paid to the worker.
The investigation included surveillance and undercover agents posing as undocumented workers seeking jobs from Yang at Dong Sheng Employment Agency in Chamblee. Neither the undercover agent nor the other aliens present and seeking employment were ever asked for documentation that they were authorized to work in the United States. The undercover agent captured on tape the defendant offering a job working seven days a week, for 12 hours a day, for the salary of $1,000 per month.
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