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The law will force all city employers to check workers' documents with E-Verify, a federal database.
If workers' documents cannot be verified, employers would be required to fire them or risk up to $10,000 in fines for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.
A city councilman proposed the ordinance in 2008, demanding that the city should evaluate the legal status of all renters and force businesses to check workers' documents with a federal database, E-Verify.
States have passed overly punitive laws to revoke the licenses of businesses caught hiring the undocumented and to force employers to participate in E-Verify, the deeply flawed federal system for checking workers' documents.
Domestic workers' organisations, and the new HK Helpers campaign supporting them, are seeking to end abuses by agencies who charge fees of as much as HKD$21,000 £1,6200) and confiscate workers' documents.
The Bush administration proposed rules for employers to follow when workers' documents did not match, but a federal court halted the effort and the Obama administration decided to abandon it.
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Workplace abuses are a fact of life for many low-wage immigrant workers, documented or otherwise, and overcoming them is rare according to labor advocates.
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They learned the history of the labor movement; their rights as workers (documented or otherwise) and the laws that are supposed to protect them; how to use social media; how to tell their story to mass media; how to organize and exactly what to expect in terms of employer retaliation.
Toward that goal, the project has tracked the epidemiology of HIV infections in the region by following two cohorts of area factory workers, documenting the number and type of HIV infections as well as the course of disease in infected cohort members.
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