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| 00:00 - 00:03 | Before we begin — it's a routine matter. One employee. |
| 00:04 - 00:05 | His permit lapsed. We issued the termination notice. |
| 00:05 - 00:07 | He resigns, or we discharge him. It's contained. |
| 00:08 - 00:12 | Everyone who has not actually READ the regulation — leave. Now. |
| 00:12 - 00:15 | . |
| 00:17 - 00:19 | Read me the letter he sent. |
| 00:19 - 00:21 | Sir — the obligation runs on the labor filing. Not the permit. |
| 00:24 - 00:26 | There's binding case law. The worker was overseas. They STILL had to pay him. |
| 00:27 - 00:28 | He performed no work for over a year. They STILL had to pay him. |
| 00:31 - 00:33 | And the permit lapse? Does it end the obligation? |
| 00:34 - 00:36 | . |
| 00:53 - 00:58 | ...It does not end the obligation. |
| 01:13 - 01:15 | We cited the statute in the notice. Did anyone read subsection (h)? |
| 01:15 - 01:17 | "Employment means labor performed WITHIN THE COUNTRY." |
| 01:18 - 01:23 | HE HAS BEEN OVERSEAS THE ENTIRE TIME. |
| 01:25 - 01:28 | We cited the one regulation that DEFINES AWAY OUR OWN CHARGE. |
| 01:29 - 01:31 | The definition is four subsections below the one we quoted. |
| 01:31 - 01:34 | ON THE SAME PAGE. |
| 01:34 - 01:37 | And the deadline. We knew about this seven months ago — |
| 01:37 - 01:40 | — and we issued the notice LAST WEEK. |
| 01:40 - 01:42 | The time-bar argument writes ITSELF. |
| 01:42 - 01:46 | And our outside counsel. The expensive one. |
| 01:46 - 01:48 | He told the employee IN WRITING his choice was "reasonable." |
| 01:48 - 01:52 | Our notice says he acted "DESPITE our advice." |
| 01:53 - 01:54 | We contradicted our OWN LAWYER in our OWN DOCUMENT. |
| 01:56 - 01:57 | It gets worse. |
| 01:57 - 02:00 | The non-payment. It was willful. |
| 02:00 - 02:03 | We swore to pay the wage on a federal filing — |
| 02:04 - 02:08 | — and stopped paying him the very next month. |
| 02:08 - 02:13 | The penalties run PER DAY. Per. Day. |
| 02:14 - 02:16 | That's a quarter of a million in fines ALONE. |
| 02:17 - 02:21 | Plus we lose the program. Every worker on it. All of them. |
| 02:27 - 02:29 | The company is being sold. Billions. |
| 02:30 - 02:34 | This becomes a disclosed liability in due diligence. |
| 02:34 - 02:36 | This becomes a disclosed liability in due diligence. |
| 02:41 - 02:42 | A public investigation. During the sale. |
| 02:43 - 02:47 | And here is the part that finishes us. |
| 02:48 - 02:53 | His letter. It doesn't ask for the penalties. |
| 02:54 - 02:56 | It doesn't ask for the multiplier. |
| 02:56 - 02:59 | It doesn't mention the sale. It is impeccably polite. |
| 03:00 - 03:02 | It asks only to be "made whole." |
| 03:04 - 03:07 | He's offering us the CHEAP way out — and we sent a termination notice — |
| 03:14 - 03:16 | — the SAME DAY. We didn't even READ his letter first. |
| 03:19 - 03:23 | He did everything we asked. It's in our own timeline. |
| 03:25 - 03:26 | We wrote "he chose to" over a man who BEGGED to keep his passport. We said no. |
| 03:31 - 03:33 | . |
| 03:40 - 03:46 | Get outside counsel off the file. Call the man back. |
| 03:46 - 03:49 | And find out who he's been talking to. He reads the regulations. |
| 03:53 - 03:56 | ...He reads the regulations himself. |