Jun

21

You Have the Right to Be Paid Fairly Whether Documented or Not

By TheGuru  Email To A Friend  Print This Article

I just got to see a commercial by Labor Sec. Hilda L. Solis where she states the unbelievable!

I thought when I saw the commerical on YouTube that it was from some local television station that had been captured and posted. A little bit of digging later and I found that this is not just a local or regional effort, but instead is part of a full-on marketing push by the Department of Labor which began April 1, 2010. Is it possible this is an April Fool’s Joke on America?

Here’s a quote from the Press Release announcing this effort:

Today’s event marked the beginning of the “We Can Help” nationwide campaign. The effort, which is being spearheaded by the department’s Wage and Hour Division, will help connect America’s most vulnerable and low-wage workers with the broad array of services offered by the Department of Labor. The campaign will place a special focus on reaching employees in such industries as construction, janitorial work, hotel/motel services, food services and home health care. It also will address such topics as rights in the workplace and how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division to recover wages owed.

The press release avoids the use of the term “undocumented workers” preferring to call them “low-wage and vulnerable workers” and only mentions immigration status once.

The first thing about the video that caught my attention was the lyrics of the background music:

We Can Help!
We’ll get you what you’re due.
We Can Help!
We’re always there for you.

Ok, I get the part that being the United States Department of Labor and all, they would and should be concerned that every American who is working is getting paid a fair wage for a fair day’s work. However, as the commercial continues, Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis says, “You have a right to be paid fairly whether documented or not.”

The amazing thing to me is that while our Immigration Service can’t or won’t crack down on illegal immigrants who are in the United States and send them home; our Department of Labor is quite willing to crack down on legal United States business owners NOT for hiring illegals in the first place, but rather for not paying them a fair wage after they hire them!

I think this is similar to going after Capone for tax-evasion instead of bootlegging and I agree that arresting and charging employers who hire illegal aliens is a good way to stop illegals working in the U.S. and without work, they would have to return home. But to go after these law breakers for not paying the illegal aliens enough money is the sort of triangulation that is above my paygrade and that must be the reason that I’m not as smart as Obama and his cronies working in the government.

Oh yeah, here’s the U.S. Dept of Labor website where you too can spend time watching Sec. Solis, Jimmy Smits and Esai Morales recite the “documented or not” comment.

http://www.dol.gov/wecanhelp/

Don’t be surprised when you go there to only find the videos in two languages: English or Spanish.

If you speak some other language like French, German or Chinese you are out of luck, cuz apparently they can’t help.

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