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11/9/2011
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Help Save the H-2B Program
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Take Action!
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As you know, two pending Department of Labor (DOL) regulations will make the H-2B program virtually unusable. Several Senators and Members of Congress are aware of the harm that the rules will pose for small businesses and plan to send a letter to DOL asking the Department to rescind both the final H-2B wage rule and the March 18 H-2B proposed rule! Please call your Senators and Member of Congress today and ask them to sign the below letter that is being circulated by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA).
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11/9/2011
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For Immediate Release September 14, 2011
For additional information contact:
Jonathan Bardzik, Director of Marketing and Industry Relations
202-789-2900
E-Verify to Be Taken Up
in House Committee This Week
Washington, D.C.— On September 15, the House Judiciary Committee will take up and consider Chairman Lamar Smith’s Legal Workforce Act legislation (H.R.2164) mandating that all U.S. employers use the E-Verify system within three years. E-Verify is the electronic system for verifying whether a prospective hire is legally authorized to work in the U.S. It is currently voluntary.
The American Nursery & Landscape Association, along with partner seasonal and agricultural employer organizations, have sounded the alarm over the impact of E-Verify without labor supply solutions for U.S. agriculture and seasonal employers. Government and private estimates suggest that upwards of 75 percent of hired farm workers lack proper work authorization, and would be screened out by E-Verify, leading to a national crisis much like that experienced in the state of Georgia when a state-level immigration bill was passed there earlier this year. Georgia growers have already estimated labor shortages as high as 30 to 50 percent, and crop losses that could exceed $300 million in 2011 alone.
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