job paid under the table

lololu
Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:42:17 +0000

I have absolutely NO sympathy for a small businessman running his business this way. Not only is it illegal, not only does it do real harm to his employees, but it hurts his competitors in a very real way. There are hundreds of thousands of small businesses that comply with employment law and they should not have to compete with people who have a significantly lower overhead because they choose to break the law.

Will this hurt the OP’s daughter’s college application? Most likely not, because as many posters have already pointed out, most colleges would have not way of knowing that she had worked “under the table”. But if I were a college admissions counselor and I did find out that an applicant was working this way, with full knowledge that it was illegal, I would have serious doubts about the candidate as some one I would trust.