<p>The wages are probably actually closer to what the market will bear.*</p>
<p>So I know that immigrants have “social security #s”
<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6814673/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6814673/</a>
My own social security number- has been linked with another number completely different- and associated with mulitiple addresses in CA.</p>
<p>I eventually had that cleared- but have no idea how it happened in the first place.</p>
<p>Im not really sure if I am a business & someone gives me a ss#, how I would tell if they are actually undocumented-
I wouldn’t ask them for their birth certificate- so I suppose wouldn’t I just assume it is legit and act accordingly?</p>
<p>So since as far as I know, I have hired someone who is legally able to work, Im filing L & I, etc for them, I would be paying them the same wage as anyone else in that position. I wouldn’t be advertising for a job that pays $10 for instance & then when a darker skinned applicant shows up tell them that it actually pays $7 an hour.
You can pay someone according to experience, but it is illegal to discriminate according to sex/race /religion.
( but not sexual orientation)</p>
<p>“So since as far as I know, I have hired someone who is legally able to work, Im filing L & I, etc for them, I would be paying them the same wage as anyone else in that position. I wouldn’t be advertising for a job that pays $10 for instance & then when a darker skinned applicant shows up tell them that it actually pays $7 an hour.
You can pay someone according to experience, but it is illegal to discriminate according to sex/race /religion.
( but not sexual orientation)”</p>
<p>Are you speaking as a business owner or as a single person hiring day laborers? I think you’re right about discrimination, of course, but when both parties what to be “off the books” then all bets are off, no?</p>