Wal-Mart in mess over cleaning crews
Wal-Mart was accused in a lawsuit of knowingly hiring companies that employed illegal immigrants to clean Wal-Mart stores and telling one vendor to hide the arrangement.
Lawyers for a group of immigrant janitors suing Wal-Mart made the claims in an amended complaint filed in federal court in New Jersey yesterday.
“Wal-Mart senior managers instructed and encouraged contractors to create a Web of alter ego companies that permitted Wal-Mart to continue to do business with the principals and allowed the migrant hiring scheme to flourish despite repeated law enforcement actions,” the complaint says.
The claims are based in part on records, unsealed this month by a federal judge in Arkansas, from a U.S. investigation of cleaning contractors hired by Wal-Mart.