How a fake ID repeatedly enabled Hyundai suppliers to employ child labor in Alabama

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Special Report-How a fake ID repeatedly enabled Hyundai suppliers to employ child labor in Alabama

Mica Rosenberg, Joshua Schneyer and Kristina Cooke
Thu, April 27, 2023 at 11:16 AM EDT·12 min read

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... identified "Fernando Ramos" as a 34-year-old man from Tennessee.

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Inspectors learned the boy, a migrant from Mexico, had just turned 16. And the credentials in his file – a forged Tennessee ID and a phony social security card – didn't look remotely legitimate. The state ID featured another person's picture. The name and number on the social security card were printed in two different, inauthentic fonts.

Investigators concluded the boy had been using them since he was 14.

The boy had been hired by a labor recruiter, a staffing agency of the kind that fills many manufacturing jobs in Alabama and across the United States. Although some warehouse and factory jobs can be performed legally by 16-year-olds, investigators allege that labor recruiters had employed the boy repeatedly even before he turned that age.

Staffing agencies, they soon alleged, had hired him for work in at least three other Alabama auto-parts makers for Hyundai, the largest factory employer in the state and the third-largest U.S. automaker by sales. "Wages being reported for F. RAMOS," the field report noted, "for numerous companies."

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-fake-id-repeatedly-151658738.html

[sanatanadharma]

1. I'd estimate that the businesses' HR people have been ignoring the fake for years

"... a forged Tennessee ID and a phony social security card – didn't look remotely legitimate. The state ID featured another person's picture. The name and number on the social security card were printed in two different, inauthentic fonts."

Well, OK. Not hiring the best hiring team, or ....?

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Rotten Employment Agencies

[MichMan]

2. The father admitted he knew he was working and not attending school

When he arrived in Montgomery, the father told Reuters, the boy struggled with English, tired of school, and instead decided to work. The father said he was unaware at the time that the boy took the factory jobs.

Probably got the money he earned as well. How did the child get to the worksite every day?

The father should face child endangerment and truancy charges. Wouldn't be surprised that he also was the one who obtained the fake documents for both the son and likely himself as well, which might also result in identity theft charges. The staffing company isn't the only one who needs to be held accountable.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. The recruiting agencies

Ace Industry Co, of Dadeville, Alabama
Issac USA Inc, of Lanett, Alabama
Job Supply System LLC, Montgomery

[Phil01]

5. The fight against child labor continues.

... about a century too late.