Word: hire
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...rumor in Laguna Niguel, Calif., was that Building Contractor Frederick Penney, 57, embittered by a divorce contest, wanted to hire a hitman to kill his wife. So an agent of the Orange County sheriffs department, posing as a killer for hire, arranged a meeting with the suspect. The upshot, say investigators: a $3,000 contract to kill Susan Penney, 35. Half was paid up front; the balance was due after the deed, which was supposed to look like an accidental fall in the bathtub...
...would ultimately grant permanent residency to many of those already in the U.S. illegally, new border crossers would find it much tougher to find jobs because employers of more than three such workers would be liable for fines of up to $2,000 for each so-called illegal they hire. The men who wait in Tijuana scoff at the idea that the threat of fines will inhibit employers from hiring them as long as there is a need for workers. "In the U.S., as in Mexico, laws are made to be bent," says one. Even so, the men are worried...
...still a live issue when the Democratic Convention meets in San Francisco on July 16, it may run into a political quagmire. Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are all on record against it; Hispanic leaders, fearful that the bill's proposed sanctions against employers who hire illegal immigrants might lead to job discrimination against all Hispanics, would try to write an anti-Simpson-Mazzoli plank into the party platform. That, in turn, would make it more difficult for Democrats to support any bill that might emerge from the conference committee when Congress reconvenes the week after...
These bosses are wildly misinterpreting the bill. Fines would apply not to employers who have illegal aliens on the payroll now, but to those who hire undocumented workers six months (House version) or one year (Senate) after Simpson-Mazzoli becomes law. Moreover, employers would have no obligation to verify the Social Security cards, birth certificates, driver's licenses or other credentials that applicants might present; in most cases, just asking to see two such documents would satisfy the Simpson-Mazzoli requirements...
...case, far more than lower pay will be needed to create jobs for black teenagers. For example, though a recent tax credit cut the wage costs of firms that hire disadvantaged youths in the summer to just 50? an hour, few companies took advantage of it when it was introduced last year. "Employers just don't want those kids in their plants," says the Urban Institute's Bendick. Concurs a Government economist: "To attack the problem of black-youth unemployment as simply a job problem and only worry about the minimum wage is not the solution...