Men’s business clothing manufacturer terminates workers over immigration status
American Apparel Inc., known manufacturer of men’s business clothing, has reportedly terminated more than 1,500 employees in its Los Angeles factory after the state government looked into the immigration status of its employees. This development came out on Thursday.
The California government is going through the immigration investigations to the employers and its employees. The Homeland Security released a memo revealing more than 650 establishments throughout the country that will undergo mandatory work force audit.
The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked for the documents of more than 1,800 from the company and discovered that about one third of its employees in Los Angeles alone were working illegally in the United States.
The employees were given one to two months to provide additional proof of their eligibility to work. Out of the 1,800 documents, about 1,600 were found to have worked illegally. The statuses of the remaining 200 employees are yet to be processed.
