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Claiming a shortage of workers for the hospitality industry, Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club has requested and obtained permission to hire 70 foreign workers. The claim of a shortage of available workers is disputed:
'"We currently have 5,136 qualified candidates in Palm Beach County for various hospitality positions listed in the Employ Florida state jobs database," CareerSource spokesman Tom Veenstra said Friday.'
70 is a slight increase over last year, when 64 foreign workers were hired.
"Making America Great Again" by hiring foreigners? Perhaps what is required is higher pay, not foreigners.
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Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Estate Gets Permission to Hire 70 Foreign Workers
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @07:16PM (1 child)
H1-B, H2-B, whatever... might as well be some kind of refugee or diplomatic visa for all I care!
If hiring foreigners is cheaper, either here or in their own countries, we have a problem. It's a national problem that can not be fixed by a business ignoring economics and thus failing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @03:12PM
no that is not correct -- they are responding to economics by hiring the cheapest labor allowable by law, which often is more lenient than what some segments of the public would allow.
if you want to solve the problem, cheap labor from other countries is not the real issue, the real issue is why does the US economy encourage this, and why are prices so high that costs must be controlled in this way, as opposed to say reducing the prices so that regular people can have more money left over that they earn from their modestly paying job?
because rich people don't want people that won't be high margin, unless they are the labor. then its as low margin as can be allowed.