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15 D’Amico workers in cross hairs of new rule

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | March 29, 2008 

The federal government is demanding more identity proof, but the restaurant workers, all of whom are Hispanic, say it’s discrimination.

By MATT McKINNEY, Star Tribune

A group of longtime employees at D’Amico & Partners will lose their jobs Monday unless they produce paperwork proving their residency. The standoff is among the first of what could be thousands nationwide between employees and employers as a new federal rule takes hold.

The group of 15, all of whom are Hispanic, made a last-ditch effort Friday to save their jobs by filing charges of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
“They’re assuming that the workers are undocumented because they’re Latino,” said Veronica Mendez of the Workers Interfaith Network, a local nonprofit group that has worked with the employees.

The group includes workers who have been employed at the company for 10 to 17 years.

“The money that I make is what my family lives off of,” said Victor Taday, who has worked at the company since 1996. The Minneapolis resident said he supports his wife and three children cleaning the Uptown D’Amico & Sons restaurant.

The confrontation is likely to play out in workplaces across the country that rely on immigrant workers. Recently, the Bush administration decided to press ahead with new rules for employers who receive notice from the Social Security Administration about employees who have suspicious Social Security numbers, or numbers that don’t match government records.

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