Engineer sues company for sacking, after request made not to return to Mexico for safety reasons

ENGINEER ALLEGES BEING HELD BY LOS ZETAS AT GUNPOINT, FIRED AFTER REQUESTING HE NOT TRAVEL TO MEXICO
GUIDETRAVEL.BIZ REPORTED a Chicago engineer is suing his former employer for allegedly firing him after he had a bad run-in with Los Zetas. A Chicago-based engineer claims his employers showed him the door after he plead with his superiors to quit sending him to Mexico, where he’d allegedly been held at gunpoint by cartel thugs.

“It’s really affected us as a family,” his wife told The Daily Beast.

Ruben Saldivar thought he was bulletproof.

With 8 years in good standing at Mazak Optonics, a Japanese-based machine tool manufacturer and leading global supplier of laser-cutting systems, he assumed he had job security. Not to mention the fact that he’d faced down two M16’s aimed at his head while he was on the clock.

On Nov. 15, 2010, the 41-year-old senior field engineer claims he had been dispatched by his bosses to Torreon, Mexico, a stronghold for the notorious Los Zetas drug syndicate, to service the company’s Caterpillar account… Read Article