October 10, 2006
Illegal Immigrants Sue Wendy’s For Lawyer’s Mistake
A group of 40 illegal immigrants sued Wendy’s after the company terminated their employment with Café Express, a Wendy’s subsidiary. According to this story, shortly after it acquired the Café Express chain, Wendy’s discovered that an outside law firm failed to complete paperwork necessary to allow the immigrants to apply for citizenship. When Wendy’s learned of the error, it was required by law to fire the employees. Wendy’s spokesman Bob Bertini called it an “extremely unfortunate situation” due to “the mistakes made by others” that began before the acquisition.
Posted by franchiselawblog at October 10, 2006 04:33 PM