Ethical Dilemma Case Study

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Recommended: Ethics in the workplace

Khalid Alrawaji
Dr. Jennifer Leonard
BMGT 499
03/23/2014
Ethical Dilemma
The HR personnel in this case faced a true ethical dilemma. Mark Solomon is torn between hiring his church colleague and a hardworking individual deserving a permanent position, or denying her the position based on falsified work documents. The conflict in this instance arises mainly from the conversation between Lupe Garza (Carmen Mendoza) and Sarah, the HR personnel. Sarah knowingly promised Lupe a permanent position at the plant. By so doing, Lupe declined another job that she had been offered on account of Sarah’s promise to her. Mark Solomon, who knows Lupe Garza by her real identity, is disturbed by the revelation that she had been working under an assumed identity and proceeds to enlarge the conflict. While she is clearly qualified for the permanent position based on her immediate availability and skills, Mark takes issue with the legal implications of hiring her under the assumed identity. The further revelation that there were more Mexicans working in the plant under assumed identities does not help sway Mark in his decision-making. The stakeholders in this ethical dilemma are, Lupe Garza, Sarah, and Mark Solomon.
By knowingly hiring individuals under full knowledge of their purchased identities, the company was violating Code section 1324a – Unlawful employment of aliens. The employer, in this instance, the plant, failed in instituting a good faith effort as required by verifying the social security numbers of each employee from the administration website in the first case. Mark, on the other hand, violated the law against continued employment of an alien, even under temporary status, once he had established that Lupe Garza had a fake citizenship....

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...ards on the virtue of the position I hold in the company.

References
8 U.S. Code § 1324a – Unlawful employment of aliens | LII / Legal Information Institute (n.d.). Retrieved March 20, 2014 from http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324a
American Patrol Reference Archive (n.d.). Aiding, abetting, harboring, encouraging illegals a felony. Retrieved from http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/AidAbetUnlawfulSec8USC1324.html
Federation for American Immigration Reform (n.d.). The law against hiring or harboring illegal aliens (1999). Retrieved March 20, 2014 from http://www.fairus.org/issue/the-law-against-hiring-or-harboring-illegal-aliens
LaMance, K. (n.d.). Penalties for employers hiring illegal immigrants. LegalMatch Law Library. Retrieved March 20, 2014 from http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/penalties-for-employers-hiring-illegal-immigrants.html

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