ICE fines Ashland business

By Staff reports
The MetroWest Daily News
Posted Nov 14, 2012 @ 02:20 PM
Last update Nov 14, 2012 @ 03:25 PM

BOSTON — Ashland business STAT Products, Inc., was fined $1,014 by the federal government for hiring illegal workers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office said Wednesday.

Stat Products, located on Butterfield Drive off Rte. 126, manufactures prescription drug labels, according to the company's website.

The company, along with 16 others in the state, were fined after an investigation of I-9 forms by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations, according to a press release.

Together, Massachusetts employers this year were fined $349,619, ICE said. In 2012 the agency conducted 35 inspections of employers' I-9 forms, an increase from the 30 annual inspections the agency has for the past three years.

Last year, Homeland Security Investigations fined Bay State companies $175,000.

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