A supervisor of a Domino’s franchise in Connecticut claims in a lawsuit that he was fired after complaining to the proprietor that the pizza store was hiring unlawful migrants in violation of state and federal legal guidelines.
Mohammad Nuruzzaman alleged within the lawsuit that he was “discharged … from employment” in November 2023 in retaliation and that the firing resulted in misplaced earnings and advantages.
The lawsuit didn’t title the proprietor of the Bridgeport-based Domino’s Pizza franchise.
Nuruzzaman, who had labored his manner as much as supervisor after being employed in 2014, stated he additionally suffered “humiliation and severe physical and emotional injuries and distress,” in response to the criticism towards 9535 Bridgeport Pizza LLC.
Information of the lawsuit was reported final week by the Bridgeport-based newspaper The Connecticut Publish.
Nuruzzaman’s legal professional declined remark.
The Publish has sought remark from attorneys for the Domino’s Pizza franchise proprietor in Bridgeport in addition to from the corporate.
The criticism was initially filed final 12 months, although a Connecticut Superior Court docket decide stayed the case and despatched it to an arbitrator.
The American Arbitration Affiliation is within the technique of scheduling a listening to within the case. The Publish has sought remark from the AAA.
Domino’s Pizza’s enterprise construction operates on a franchise mannequin whereby enterprise house owners pay a royalty price to company headquarters in change for being allowed to make use of the model’s title and brand.
Unlawful immigration was a key problem in the course of the latest election cycle.
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to crack down on undocumented migrants — a lot of whom are employed in varied industries together with development, agriculture, hospitality and leisure, meals providers, manufacturing and personal family employment.
The outgoing Biden administration struggled to deliver down the rising variety of migrants coming by means of the southern border.
Rather less than a 12 months in the past, in December 2023, the Border Patrol made a couple of quarter of 1,000,000 arrests alongside the southern border — an all-time excessive.
There have been an estimated 11 million individuals within the nation illegally in January 2022, in response to the most recent estimate by the Homeland Safety Division.
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