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Employer barred from hiring alien workers
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Posted on Mar 03 2005
The Department of Labor has disqualified an employer from hiring alien workers in the Commonwealth after he abandoned a nonresident employee.
Rolando G. Bigalbal was also ordered to pay his former employee, Adelina O. Braza, a total of $2,196 for unpaid wages and damages.
Records showed that Braza was transferred to the employment of Bigalbal in April 2003. Braza worked as a house worker at his residence until July 2004.
Braza filed the labor case last year, claiming that she had not been paid for her labor during the last part of her contract and had been abandoned by her employer.
Named as respondents were Bigalbal and Laudicia C. Sanchez, who had a domestic relationship with Bigalbal during the time Braza provided service to her contractual employer.
Labor investigators found that the value of Braza’s uncompensated work was $1,098, a figure that neither Bigalbal nor Sanchez has disputed.
“[Bigalbal], for abandoning the complainant, is disqualified from employing or in any way using nonresident workers in the Commonwealth,” hearing officer Herbert Soll said in an administrative order. “No consideration should be given to a request for relief from the disqualification until this amount is paid to the complainant.”
Sanchez was cleared from responsibility, as she settled her portion of the case before the hearing began.
Braza, for her part, was allowed to transfer to a new employer as a commercial cleaner. She was transferred under a conditional grant of transfer and may work durin gthe period that her application is being processed.
Soll ordered Braza’s new employer to file the application within 45 days.
