A dozen workforce fired by a Chandler Pei Wei Restaurant

A dozen staff who were fired by a Chandler Pei Wei restaurant claim it absolutely was because of the controversial new immigration law.

The staff tell us they have been let go after they attended a rally against SB 1070, however the restaurant says there is more towards the story. They apparently skipped out on their scheduled shifts to attend the protest.

Those 12 former workers want their jobs back again, and are also asking for back pay and an apology from Pei Wei. They say other employees who failed to indicate as much as deliver the results had been punished -- not fired -- and they shouldn't are already treated differently.

They're now getting their protest to Pei Wei's front door.

"I thought they have been likely to assist us in 1 way but they did not," says Elizabeth Serafin, who was fired. She affirms she didn't call in May 29 simply because other employees had asked for that day off but ended up denied.

Twelve of the store's 30 staff did not present up for operate to march in the anti-SB 1070 protest.

"We had been hungry, we have been thirsty¡­ it was even worse than gonna deliver the results, we failed to do it for enjoyable!" affirms Serafin.

Serafin claims that when other staff have missed operate from the past, with no calling in, they were punished but not fired.

Yvonne Herrera also lost her work. She worked for Pei Wei for 10 many years as a cook, without having ever having a sick day, she affirms.

Pei Wei issued the following statement: "We ended up disappointed that 12 staff from our Chandler location selected to violate a well-known attendance policy resulting in their termination. When personnel chose to not display up for a scheduled shift and selected to not give observe, it causes tremendous disruption to fellow coworkers and impedes our power to serve our guests."

Serafin claims she doesn't regret missing perform to march for an matter she feels so strongly about.

'"We know [the immigration law] about to have an effect on our families or even our jobs¡­ there may be a lot of folks coming from one more state. There is certainly a large amount of white folks undertaking that, how come we're not carrying out it for ourselves?"

A neighborhood workers union is helping the twelve people who were definitely fired. Protesters say they continue to picket outside of Pei Wei from time to time.