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3 defrauded alien workers go to court
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Posted on Dec 12 2008
Three alien workers who, despite a Department of Labor order, still failed to get any payment from the employers who had defrauded them, have decided to go to court to compel payment.
Yu Shengxiang, Jin Chengquan, and Hang Liya, all Chinese, sued Dragon Corp., Kuan Y. Leung, and Jin Shu for breach of contract.
The plaintiffs, through counsel S. Joshua Berger, alleged that the defendants are in breach of their employment contracts as well as the Labor’s administrative order.
Shengxiang and Liya asked the Superior Court to order Dragon Corp. and Leung to pay them $7,844 and $7,844 in damages respectively.
Chengquan asked the court to order Dragon Corp., Leung, and Jin Shu to pay him $8,212 in damages.
Berger stated in the complaint that all three plaintiffs were employed by Dragon Corp. and Leung.
Berger said Chengquan was also employed as a waiter by Jin Shu in a karaoke establishment that is jointly owned by Shu and co-defendants Dragon Corp. and Leung.
The lawyer said more than 15 days has elapsed since the issuance of Labor’s administrative order, but none of the money has been paid.
In Labor’s administrative order dated Nov. 18, 2008, hearing officer Herbert D. Soll permanently disqualified Dragon Corp. and Leung from employing nonresident workers in the CNMI.
Soll found Dragon Corp. and Leung jointly liable to pay Shengxiang and Liya in the amount of $1,500 each for illegal charges such as employer’s processing of a labor application, plus $6,344 each for one year’s wages.
Soll ruled that Leung, Dragon Corp. and Shu are jointly indebted to Chengquan in the total amount of $8,212 in unpaid wages and damages.
The hearing officer also sanctioned Leung and Dragon Corp. to each pay a $2,000 sanction.
