Question

BUSINESS LAW

Assume the following facts based on the Jennings case study: Agristar, the successor company to Agriprocessor Inc., has decided to sell the meat packing plant. Your client, Agriprofit, has asked your consulting firm to evaluate the wisdom of acquiring the company. Specifically, as the case study indicates, the plant requires a large employee base of unskilled workers and the previous owners had not been able to hire enough employees without resorting to hiring alien workers. Agriprocessor got into trouble after the workers requested jobs for their minor children to increase household income. Agriprofit has no intention of hiring minors to work in the plant or undocumented aliens but papers can be forged and sometimes, the company must look the other way to meet its production quotas. Given the federal government's inability to resolve the problem of illegal immigration and the Supreme Court's decision in Arizona vs. U.S., which limits a state's ability to pass legislation to resolve the issues inside of its own state borders due to the Supremacy Clause, companies that require unskilled workers have little legal guidance and a lot of criminal and civil exposure if the company's workforce violates immigration and employment laws and regulations. Illegal workers have a different perspective. Many are grateful for employment but pay the price of abusive working conditions. These workers cannot behave as organized labor, in the traditional sense, because they do not wish to be deported.

What would you advise the client to acquire the company or not and the reasons for your recommendations?

Answer 1

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According to me, the client should not accept the proposal to acquire the company as there are many issues which can be faced by the new honor after buying the company as the base of the employees in the organization is of unskilled labors and it becomes very difficult to cope up with this employees. Sometimes, you can face the issues of minor employees as well which is a crime in the eyes of laws as those people it is the source of there survival but in the eyes of law, it is a crime take work from a minor and in the base of unskilled labor as you will definitely find a case of a minor which can lead you to trouble. So I will advise the new client to decline the offer of acquiring the company e and start looking for another effective business which can help him to grow more with time.