President Trump’s new focus on deportation of immigrants is on businesses across the United States and puts Specific spotlights Near a retail chain, a striking raid recently took place: Home Depot.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested earlier this month Home Depot in the main Latino community in Los Angeles. The next day, another protest broke out outside the home of Home Depot in different parts of the city. Although retailers do not sign contracts directly with temporary workers, areas outside of store properties have always been where people gather to find jobs.
To cope with these raids, Home Depot has issued new guidance to employees to understand if ice appears, Bloomberg The first Report. Home Depot Confirm wealth Employees at the store must report any incidents in the event of any incident involving ice. Remind workers across the chain to avoid safe interactions with agents. Regional store leaders at locations affected by the Los Angeles raid allow workers who are upset about the raid to pay all day, although it is not a company-wide policy.
A spokesperson for Home Depot told wealth.
Ice across the country is likely to continue, or even intensify, in the coming weeks and months. Trump wrote on social media postal On Sunday, ICE agents will “do their best to achieve the very important goal of achieving the largest large-scale deportation program in history.”
This means we will most likely see other companies creating and sharing internal policies with their workforce to do what Icefield Agents destroy business. Of course, even if the labor force is not directly affected by the raid, people may have friends and family, which employers should keep in mind when considering the morale of workers.
“Probably some employers just sit off the court and don’t have to put the plan in place. They have that attitude toward treatment,” said Stephen Toland, an attorney for the law firm FBFK. Have been told before wealth. “As immigration continues, employers will have to start paying more attention to the possibility of raids.”
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