How a fake ID repeatedly enabled Hyundai suppliers to employ child labor in Alabama [View all]

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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