A dozen employees fired by a Chandler Pei Wei Restaurant

A dozen employees who were definitely fired by a Chandler Pei Wei restaurant claim it had been as a result of the controversial new immigration law.

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

Individuals 12 former employees want their jobs back again, and are also asking for back again pay and an apology from Pei Wei. They say other staff who decided not to indicate as much as work were punished -- not fired -- and they shouldn't have been treated differently.

They are now using their protest to Pei Wei's front door.

"I believed they were definitely going to assistance us in 1 way but they decided not to," claims Elizabeth Serafin, who was fired. She states she decided not to call in Might 29 mainly because other workers had asked for your day time off but ended up denied.

Twelve on the store's 30 workforce did not demonstrate up for deliver the results to march inside anti-SB 1070 protest.

"We ended up hungry, we ended up thirsty¡­ it absolutely was worse than gonna deliver the results, we didn't do it for fun!" states Serafin.

Serafin claims that when other workforce have missed perform in the past, without calling in, they were punished but not fired.

Yvonne Herrera also lost her occupation. She worked for Pei Wei for 10 many years like a cook, without ever getting a sick day, she claims.

Pei Wei issued the following statement: "We ended up disappointed that twelve workers from our Chandler area selected to violate a well-known attendance policy resulting in their termination. When employees chose to not present up for a scheduled shift and chose to not give discover, it leads to tremendous disruption to fellow coworkers and impedes our ability to serve our guests."

Serafin says she doesn't regret missing work to march for an issue she feels so strongly about.

'"We know [the immigration law] gonna impact our families as well as our jobs¡­ there is certainly a large amount of folks coming from an additional state. There's a lot of white persons carrying out that, how appear we're not accomplishing it for ourselves?"

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