Posted on 07/31/2018 9:38:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Labor (DOL) announced an agreement Tuesday to work together in cracking down on companies that "discriminate" against U.S. workers by hiring foreign workers.
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and the Labor Department will start sharing information on employers, refer issues to the appropriate officials at each department and offer training to each other’s staff under the agreement.
Acting Assistant General John Gore said in a statement that the agreement will help the civil rights division’s “ability to identify employers the favor temporary visa holders over U.S. workers who can do the job.”
“Employers should hire workers based on their skills, experience, and authorization to work; not based on discriminatory preferences that violate the law,” he said.
Rosemary Lahasky, the deputy assistant secretary for DOL’s employment and training administration, said in a statement that sharing the information “will help protect U.S. workers from unlawful discrimination.”
DOJ and DOL say they reached the agreement “to better protect U.S. workers from discrimination by employers that prefer to hire temporary visa workers over qualified U.S. workers.”
President Trump has promoted an “America First” agenda, criticizing companies that move plants out of the U.S. and stoking concerns about immigrants taking American jobs.
Critics have hit Trump over the statements, noting that his own private properties have filed multiple requests to hire foreign workers. The properties hire the workers through the H-2B visa program, which allows American employers to bring foreign workers to the country for temporary, non-agricultural work.
The employers must be able to show there are not enough American workers able or willing to fill the seasonal jobs.
The Trump National Golf Club in Florida asked the Labor Department for permission to hire about a dozen foreign workers this month, BuzzFeed News reported.
Other properties have made similar requests, including Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Trump has defended the practice, saying in 2015 that it is "very hard to get people in Florida for seasonal jobs."
Disney.....................
As long as they can legally work in the U.S., companies should be allowed to hire the best qualified person at the best price.
Complete turnaround from Obama. Under Obama the DOJ targeted employers who hired U.S. citizens and not illegal immigrants.
Yeah!!! My wife has had a very difficult time getting a job. When the hiring manager is a foreigner, they don’t hire Americans.
Even if the company got H1B Visas or guest worker visas by falsely claiming US workers weren't available to do those jobs?
H1B is all about importing foreigners to replace US citizens.
I guess the difference would be that Trump was obeying the LAW and requesting permission. Everyone else just hires the illegals off the books and saves them some tax money.
What’s your view on the concept of H1b realtors?
“Even if the company got H1B Visas or guest worker visas by falsely claiming US workers weren’t available to do those jobs?”
Who do yo want to decide who is most qualified for a job, the company that will hire and pay a worker, or some bureaucrat from the federal government?
“H1B is all about importing foreigners to replace US citizens.”
Citizens are not being replaced.
Agreed. Except for the “illegal alien” part. The person should be legal.
Anyone reading the excerpt knows Trump himself is doing it.
Sure, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Temporary workers have significantly less wage bargaining power as their visa is tied to that one employer, but they also can generally accept less, because they’re ultimately usually sending or bringing that money back to someplace with a lower cost of living. For those reasons, there is obviously an incentive for employers to discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of temporary foreign workers, and the law has been set up so that they can only “legally work in the U.S.” if there is a compelling reason to allow them to do so, i.e. U.S. citizens can’t be found who could do the same work.
Target them with drones? Nothing else will suffice.
[When the hiring manager is a foreigner, they don’t hire Americans.]
Thank you. It should not have to be stated but that is correct.
yes
“but they also can generally accept less, because they’re ultimately usually sending or bringing that money back to someplace with a lower cost of living. For those reasons, there is obviously an incentive for employers to discriminate against U.S. workers in favor of temporary foreign workers.”
Perhaps, but a company in San Francisco, where the cost of living in extremely high, can hire workers in Tupelo, Mississippi, where the cost of living is low.
Companies should have the right to buy the highest quality but cheapest labor in the marketplace.
“Just the mere fact that the person obtained an H1B visa indicates that some bureaucrat from the Federal Government DID make that decision.”
When i buy a product, I buy the best legal product and the best price.
Why do you not want that option available to business?
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