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Industries Say New Wage Rates For Legal Foreign Workers Will Be Crippling

     ALEXANDRIA, La. (CN) - Industries dependent on immigrant workers say the U.S. Department of Labor has arbitrarily and unfairly imposed "immediate retroactive, substantive, and burdensome changes" to wage rates that will take effect Sept. 30, more than doubling the wage rates for some workers with H-2B visas.
     Lead plaintiff The Louisiana Forestry Association says the new wage rates will stunt industries' progress, to the benefit of foreign competitors, and domestic rivals who use illegal workers.
     "The new H-2B prevailing wage rate will cripple Louisiana employers while many of their domestic competitors, who use undocumented, illegal workers, and their foreign competitors (especially China), who do not face such labor costs, are already operating at a significant advantage," according to the federal complaint.
     Plaintiffs include the Outdoor Amusement Business Association, the Crawfish Processors Alliance, the American Shrimp Processors Association, the Forest Resources Association, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, and the American Sugar Cane League of the U.S.A.
     The H-2B worker program was created in 1987 as amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. It provides nonimmigrant alien labor for nonagricultural employers in the United States when U.S. workers are putatively not available.
     The plaintiff Forest Resources Association claims that "if implemented September 30, the Wage Rule II will significantly reduce the annual level of U.S. reforestation. It will cause job losses among members' U.S. employees employed in jobs that are not covered within the H-2B certifications and who cannot work and enjoy livelihoods if their employers are not engaged in tree planting. ...

Industries Say New Wage Rates For ... - Courthouse News Service

     ALEXANDRIA, La. (CN) - Industries dependent on immigrant workers say the U.S. Department of Labor has arbitrarily and unfairly imposed "immediate retroactive, substantive, and burdensome changes" to wage rates that will take effect Sept. 30, more than doubling the wage rates for some workers with H-2B visas.
     Lead plaintiff The Louisiana Forestry Association says the new wage rates will stunt industries' progress, to the benefit of foreign competitors, and domestic rivals who use illegal workers.
     "The new H-2B prevailing wage rate will cripple Louisiana employers while many of their domestic competitors, who use undocumented, illegal workers, and their foreign competitors (especially China), who do not face such labor costs, are already operating at a significant advantage," according to the federal complaint.
     Plaintiffs include the Outdoor Amusement Business Association, the Crawfish Processors Alliance, the American Shrimp Processors Association, the Forest Resources Association, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, and the American Sugar Cane League of the U.S.A.
     The H-2B worker program was created in 1987 as amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. It provides nonimmigrant alien labor for nonagricultural employers in the United States when U.S. workers are putatively not available.
     The plaintiff Forest Resources Association claims that "if implemented September 30, the Wage Rule II will significantly reduce the annual level of U.S. reforestation. It will cause job losses among members' U.S. employees employed in jobs that are not covered within the H-2B certifications and who cannot work and enjoy livelihoods if their employers are not engaged in tree planting. ...

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