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 identify the proprietor of the Bridgeport-based Domino’s Pizza franchise.
Nuruzzaman, who had labored his approach as much as supervisor after being employed in 2014, mentioned he additionally suffered “humiliation and extreme bodily and emotional accidents and misery,” in accordance with the criticism in opposition to 9535 Bridgeport Pizza LLC.
Information of the lawsuit was reported final week by the Bridgeport-based newspaper The Connecticut Put up.
Nuruzzaman’s legal professional declined remark.
The Put up 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 yr, although a Connecticut Superior Court docket choose stayed the case and despatched it to an arbitrator.
The American Arbitration Affiliation is within the strategy of scheduling a listening to within the case. The Put up has sought remark from the AAA.
Domino’s Pizza’s enterprise construction operates on a franchise mannequin whereby enterprise homeowners pay a royalty payment to company headquarters in change for being allowed to make use of the model’s identify and emblem.
Unlawful immigration was a key subject in the course of the current election cycle.
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to crack down on undocumented migrants — lots of whom are employed in varied industries together with building, agriculture, hospitality and leisure, meals companies, manufacturing and personal family employment.
The outgoing Biden administration struggled to carry down the rising variety of migrants coming by means of the southern border.
Rather less than a yr in the past, in December 2023, the Border Patrol made a couple of quarter of one million 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 accordance with the newest estimate by the Homeland Safety Division.
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