Boycott Pizza Hut

This is what racism, xenophobia, and a hatred of the unknown does to otherwise decent Americans. 

Purportedly based on SSA no match letters, five Schaumburg, IL Pizza Hut employees were fired on Monday, February 16th. More employees are slated to be fired on March 2nd at a Lake Zurich, IL location.  All of these employees have been asked by Pizza Hut management to re-verify their eligibility for employment under the threat of termination. Many have worked at Pizza Hut for more than a decade.

Back in December many national organizations, under the banner of the Low Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition, sent a letter to Yum Brands CEO, David Novak informing him that employers are not required to implement a proposed Department of Homeland Security SSA no match safe-harbor rule because it is under court injunction and blocked. As explained in that letter to Pizza Hut "Currently, the only obligation of an employer upon receipt of an SSA no-match letter is to notify the employee". The employee may correct the error with SSA, but is not required by law to do so. The employer is not required to provide SSA with corrected names and numbers. Moreover, employers are not prohibited from continuing to employ individuals with mismatched Social Security numbers. In fact, the SSA's clear position is that employers should not "take any adverse action against an employee, such as laying off, suspending, firing, or discriminating against that individual, just because his or her social security number appears on the list" and that "doing so could, in fact, violate State or Federal law and subject you to legal consequences" (emphasis added).

Call Pizza Hut's President, Scott Bergren, at (972) 338-7700 and tell him to stop firing immigrant workers and to re-hire those he has already fired!

Let's stop the madness!