High Court Hearing Oral Arguments in Undocumented Worker Benefits Challenge

The Michigan Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a constitutional challenge to a law being used to withhold wage-replacement benefits from undocumented workers who suffer compensable injuries. Michigan law holds that employers are not liable for indemnity benefits for the period that a person is unable to work due to imprisonment or the commission of a felony.  In 2003, the Court of Appeals in Sanchez v. Eagle Alloy Inc. held that the law shields employers from paying indemnity benefits to those not authorized to work in the U.S. and who use fake documents t...