TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Illegal immigrants can turn to the state to get wages they've been promised but not paid as well as additional damages from their employers.

That's how the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The court said in a unanimous decision that a Kansas law requiring employers to pay their workers all the wages due them at least once a month covers all workers, even ones in the United States illegally.

The same law allows the Department of Labor to force companies deliberately withholding wages to pay an additional penalty to their workers.

The Supreme Court ruled in the case of Cesar Martinez Corral, who worked seven months as a cook at a Burrito Express in Wichita but was fired from the six-dollar-an-hour job in May 2004.