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S 891 113th Congress Senate Immigration Employee hiring Fires Foreign labor Forests, forestry, trees State and local government operations Temporary and part-time employment Visas and passports

American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2013

Introduced: May 8, 2013 Introduced by: Merkley, Jeff Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
May 8, 2013
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

American Jobs in American Forests Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, as a component of the H-2B (temporary nonagricultural workers) labor certification process for employment in forestry, to take specified actions to recruit U.S. workers before petitioning to hire H-2B workers.

Requires a prospective H-2B employer to submit a separate petition for each state in which the employer plans to employ H-2B non-immigrants for a period of at least seven days.

Prohibits the Secretary from granting a temporary labor certification to a prospective H-2B employer until the Director of the state workforce agency has determined that: (1) employer recruitment requirements have been met, and (2) U.S. nationals are not qualified or available to fill such employment opportunities.

What's happening now May 8, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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