Quote by sundancer2004
Quote by patokl
Trump certainly knows the immigration status of the 64 new members of his Mar a Lago staff, for whom he was granted H2B visa last October. He still hires foreign workers, for jobs he claims he can't find Americans for. Yet since 2010, nearly 300 U.S. residents applied or were referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers there, but only 17 were hired.
Over the same time period, 500 visas for foreign workers were filed at Mar-a-Lago.
In Palm Beach County, Tom Veenstra, senior director of support services at CareerSource, a job placement service, took issue with Mr. Trump’s contention that he could not staff his clubs with locals. “We have hundreds of qualified applicants for jobs like those,” he said.
After a report by Reuters in July about Mr. Trump’s use of guest workers, executives from Mar-a-Lago met with recruiters from Mr. Veenstra’s agency, promising to request local workers for 50 positions.
But Mar-a-Lago sent over just a single job request, for a banquet server. Mr. Veenstra said CareerSource referred four applicants to the club, and one of them got the job.
Since then, Mr. Veenstra said, “we haven’t received any other job orders.”
That nearly 300 workers were interview and only were hired doesn't surprise me. A new walmart in NC interviewed over 500 fro 140 jobs, they couldn't pass the drug test nor background investigation.
"a businessman does not succeed by paying more for less."
17 out of 300 is lest than 6%, 140 out of 500 is 28%... big difference. and of those 500 guest visas, just how many do you think ended up hired. my guess would be all or most of them, since coming into the states on such a visa generally requires that you work for the person sponsoring you. And what of the promise by mar-a-lago to fill 50 positions with local positions, yet only requested one. oh, wait. they didn't say over what period of time they would do that... gee, nevermind.
also, when you post a quote, it is generally a good thing if you indicate who said it.