Legal Opinion
Farmer Brothers Coffee v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 17, 2005No. B180839PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HASTINGS, J.—
BACKGROUND
We issued a writ of review on April 4, 2005, with regard to two workers’ compensation matters and consolidated them for argument and decision. Each petition contends that the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), title 8 United States Code section 1101 et seq., preempts Labor Code section 1171.5, which provides that immigration status is irrelevant to the issue of liability under state labor and employment laws, and Labor Code section 3351, which includes aliens in the definition of “employee,” even those unlawfully employed. In each case, it was…
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