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Employer told to stop submitting applications for nonresident workers
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Posted on Oct 14 2004
The Department of Labor has ordered a disqualified employer to stop submitting applications to hire nonresident workers in the Commonwealth.
Hearing officer Jerry Cody issued the order, affirming the Labor director’s decision to deny the permit renewal application submitted by employer Baek Yong Gi for Purificacion Delos Santos.
In 1999, Baek, along with other officials of Ship Ashore Inc., was permanently barred from employing alien workers in the CNMI for his involvement in a labor case. He was sanctioned in his capacity as president of the company, which was proven to owe thousands of unpaid wages to seven alien workers.
On Feb. 12, 2004, Baek filed a renewal application for Delos Santos to work as his house worker. The Labor director denied the application on June 21, pursuant to the 1999 administrative order that permanently barred Baek from employing nonresident workers.
At the hearing, Baek and Delos Santos did not contest Baek’s disqualification. He merely requested that the worker be allowed to transfer to another employer.
Cody granted the parties’ request, giving Delos Santos until Nov. 18 to find a new employer and submit a transfer application.
Baek was instructed to buy an airline ticket for Delos Santos, should she fail to file the necessary application.
“Baek Yong Gi is ordered to refrain from submitting applications to employ nonresident workers as long as the disqualification…remains in effect,” Cody added. “Any future submission by Baek of a nonresident work permit application shall be deemed a willful violation of the [1999] order and the present order and shall subject Mr. Baek to substantial monetary sanctions.”
