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."
“What’s your view on the concept of H1b realtors?”
The more people in a marketplace, the better the market.
Oh really? There are a lot of American engineers and IT workers who would beg to differ with you.
Quality seldom enters into the equations. Cheapest does.
The question is the “marketplace”. In past days, slavery was legal. “Companies” (mostly individuals back then I suppose) had “the right to buy the highest quality but cheapest labor in the marketplace.” Part of the reason the North and the Republicans prohibited slavery in their territory and ultimately couldn’t tolerate it even in the South was that the “marketplace” for labor was artificially tilted against laborers by the fact that there was a large class of them with no bargaining power whatsoever.
We have much the same thing going on now with illegal immigration. Again, “companies” have “the right to buy the highest quality but cheapest labor in the marketplace”, but the marketplace has been artificially tilted against laborers by the fact that there is a large class of them with no bargaining power whatsoever.
Temporary foreign workers is certainly better than slavery and illegal immigration, but it’s still of a piece. They don’t have any ability to change employers, so their bargaining power is limited, so to the extent that they’re in the “marketplace”, the marketplace is artificially titled against labor.
I don’t think those of us who are concerned about these issues are asking for special protections for workers; we just want an even playing field in the marketplace for labor where there isn’t a government-sanctioned, imported class of laborers with fewer rights and thus less bargaining power than the rest.
I noticed that the last time I was job hunting. Those companies often require fluency in a foreign language.
That response exposes your complete ignorance (or complicity) on this topic.
I do not want companies using visas because they don’t want to pay a fair wage to US citizens. These companies where those at the top are all millionaires can take less for themselves and provide more middle class jobs to US citizens.
Yup. I have a similar rule. I get hit up my recruiters all the time. If I can't pronounce their name, I won't have anything to do with them.
Great post. You and others here on the thread add so much knowledge and common sense to this subject. That’s why FR is a great place to be.
Yes, I agree
Key word is discriminate. Diversity Nazis still rule corporate america.
You can’t seriously believe that. Tell that to all the tens of thousands of unemployed off IT workers.
so you were perfectly OK when Sun Bank and Disney fired all of their IT workers and hired H1Bs for the positions and then extorted the fired workers to train their replacements or forfeit all severance pay?
BS. where have you been for the last 18 years.
The company needed a “fluent in Spanish” manager to give orders to the workers (they replaced all of those who were fluent in English and of course, worked for much less)!
The company’s former employees also drove the many company trucks and the company now needed a manager that could drive the new workers from site to site!
”Is America a Great Country or What!”
Thanks yesthatjallen.
[Tell that to all the tens of thousands of unemployed IT workers.]
Absolutely.
With H1b/L1/PERM/etc, citizens *are* being replaced. Especially with IT roles that could be used to (re)enter.
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