Three residents of northeastern Ohio testified Wednesday in favor of a Senate bill to ban workers’ compensation payments to undocumented immigrants.The legislation, SB 176, was first introduced last August and assigned to the Commerce & Labor Committee, but it never passed either chamber. During its second hearing before the committee Wednesday, Julie Aldrich of Portage County told senators the bill would “make an unscrupulous employer think twice before knowingly hiring illegal aliens.”Similar legislation has been introduced in the past three sessions. A f...
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