Mendoza v. Monmouth Recycling Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an undocumented worker who was injured on the job was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, as providing the employer with immunity from payment of compensation to undocumented workers would provide a disincentive to ensure workplace safety
• holding claimant’s need for medical treatment and right thereto did not derive from his immigration status but from the service he performed while working for employer
• finding that providing an employer with immunity from payment of workers’ compensation to undocumented workers would provide a disincentive to ensure workplace safety
• the disability under which an illegal alien works does not justify withholding workers’ compensation benefits
• “immunity from accountability [under Workers’ Compensation Act] might well have the further undesirable effect of encouraging employers to hire illegal aliens in contravention of the provisions and policies [of the Immigration Reform Act] ”
• “immunity from accountability [under Workers’ Compensation Act] might well have the further undesirable effect of encouraging employers to hire illegal aliens in contravention of the provisions and policies [of the Immigration Reform Act]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).