Restaurants May Have To Disclose Immigration Of Servers

And while the greater issue of immigration enforcement is argued in the highest court in the land, we get this from a County Board of Supervisors, in California, as reported in the Los Angeles Times:

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposal Tuesday that would require restaurants to inform customers whether they perform immigration background checks on their employees.

The measure sponsored by Supervisor Neil Derry would color-code the A, B or C grade cards that restaurants receive during their annual health inspection and display in their windows.

Under the proposal, a green-colored card would indicate the restaurant uses the federal database E-Verify to check whether its employees are eligible to work in the Unites States.

A red-colored card would indicate the restaurant does not use it.

According to Derry the measure is a public health issue because undocumented workers aren’t subjected to same health examinations as citizens or legal workers. So restaurants who employ undocumented workers jeopardize the health of their customers. And while that sounds like a straight-forward thing, it’s really not.

Derry said the measure is a way to circumvent the “out-of-touch” state Legislature that passed a law, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, that prohibits the state, cities and counties from mandating that private employers use E-Verify.

I wonder if Derry would entertain the idea of a law that would require restaurants to inform customers about the caloric intake of the food they’re about to eat, or the pesticides used on their vegetables, or the hormones given to the animals their meat comes from?

 [Photo by Daquella manera]