Former employees of Lee Mah Electronics, most of them immigrant Chinese women who do not speak English, gathered at City Hall yesterday to protest the circumstances of their firing. In addition to failing to give them the sixty-day notice mandated by federal law, the circuit board and telecommunications equipment company required them to sign termination letters written only in English before giving them their final paychecks, and did not pay them their full vacation and back pay. This is the second such incidence of Chinese immigrant workers in San Francisco being exploited in the past few months.
See "Chinese workers protest abrupt firings", VANESSA HUA, San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 2001