Non-US Citizen Entrepreneurs: Starting a Business in America

  It's like, the rules they gotta follow, ya know? OMG, like for real, they are totally entitled, like EU vibes, to get the same treatment as local workers in the workplace. Anyway, there's like hella proof of EU citizens getting seriously exploited for their labor in the UK. It's been suggested that some of this exploitation is like, straight up forced labor, which is like, a total breach of human rights (like, Article 4 ECHR) and a criminal offense under UK law (EHRC 2010; Dwyer et al., 2011)). OMG, there's like a major lack of enforcement, especially when it comes to EU-8 workers. Like, there's evidence of labor breaches (Costanza and Daly, 1992) or academic capital (Gregory et al., 2009) which is, like, totally connected to Bourdieu's cultural capital, and it can totally be challenged and acknowledged. This ain't really spelled out in the Equality Act but it's, like, a major move to lock down that real equality vibe, ya know? It's, like, a key part of some social justice movements and stuff.

Tho the Equality Act offers some lit protections to characteristics that weren't previously covered by the Race Relations Act 1976 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the theory, tho, that clearly underpins this Act hasn't yet been well established when it comes to recognizing the equality claim from cultural capital. There's, like, no cap on a recognized principle to flex on whether we recognize or don't recognize migrants' cultural capital, you know? Posi action provision in da Equality Act don't really provide dat test and boost dat specific aspect of equality law, like rights to equality from cultural capital. The provision can like, totally dampen the vibes, flex or skillz of migrants by lowkey reinforcing beliefs that minorities are less qualified, ya know? Employers gotta know that if an employee feels they've been treated unfairly, they can totally make discrimination and other no-no complaints under the Equality Act. 

The complaint gives a vibe for workers and employers to flex and spill tea about discrimination and other no-go behavior complaints under the Equality Act. 

Some of my peeps were like complaining and stuff, but they didn't even bother to fill out the complaint form to get info and answers from their boss or the person they think is responsible. SMH. It's not like, mandatory to use the complaint form, ya know? Info can be requested and snagged by letter or in other ways, ya know? The respondents like Jakub and Raymond, tho, were totally not vibing with the redundancy dismissal decision. They straight up called it a discriminatory move. But they didn't get the right answer from their bosses, smh. According to them, they were like so not vibing with the response because their employers totally ghosted them on their right to appeal the decision. We've peeped in the last chapter that like, over two-thirds of my peeps who had mad skills and qualifications for their gig straight up said they were hella unhappy with their cash flow and perks. Many peeps, even if they were doing the same or similar work, didn't get any vacay or sick pay. But the local workers got those perks. Some farm workers even worked without their stat right, fam. The employers gotta make sure that the pay and benefits don't discriminate against anyone, that's like against the equality law, you know? If someone, like, suspects inequality of pay based on, like, protected characteristic (like race, etc.), they can, like, get info from their employer or from the person they think is responsible, ya know? In some cases, the peeps asked their boss for deets on the pay gap between them and the local workers. They got totally ghosted on that info and weren't clued in on how to file a complaint, smh. The workers were like so lost because they didn't have enough tea on how to flex their complaints, ya know? 

And like, their English isn't on point, so they might not even know how to get the deets on filing a complaint about equal terms. It's a whole struggle, fam. 

Employers were totally woke about the equality of terms complaints that can be made by an employee when they think they haven't received equal terms because of gender or protected characteristics like race, including color, ethnicity, or immigration status. Although the whole unequal pay thing was totally called out by Anastazja multiple times, her employer never bothered to give her any legit answers. SMH. This issue is like totally linked to how migrant workers are hella vulnerable to being exploited at work, which has been like constantly pointed out by research on migrant workers in the UK (e.g. CAB, 2005; CAS, 2006, CRC, 2007; de Lima and Wright, 2009). The most likely reason is that some employers are all about that  and don't care about following the rules. They say that migrant workers are just chasing that money, so they make them work more than they're legally allowed to (de Lima and Wright, 2009). This is where we see how crucial employment-related accommodations can be as a flex to achieve anti-discrimination goals or to prevent employment discrimination. But like, if there's, like, any major breaches of the terms and conditions of employment and the employers can, like, easily dip out without any consequences, then the labor laws and regulations can, like, totally lose their effectiveness. This argument be like sayin' what The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford (The Migration Observatory, 2014) be sayin':