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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Vector99
Oh that's right, one way is legal and the other isn't.
Correct.
But it doesn't seem to have much to do with the topic. Which is Trump's "southern White House" seems to be not "hiring American."
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
I stand corrected. Thank you.
Same property, right?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
We've seen that Trump often entertains officials and foreign dignitaries at the club.
But, Trump owns it all, right? It's his.
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: Grimpachi
originally posted by: Southern Guardian
It appears Trump's own supporters are unfamiliar with what his positions are when it comes to the issues. It took me 5 seconds on google.
Did you really think showing them Trumps own quote would get them to admit the hypocrisy?
Of course not! The religious overtones have taken over the defense of Trump.
www.politico.com...
originally posted by: Phage
They are hiring cooks and waiters.
The Mar-a-Lago club asked for 40 H-2B visas for servers and another 21 for cooks. The H-2B visa is for "temporary non-agricultural workers."
Palm Beach's unemployment rate currently sits at 3.6 percent. A local job placement agency told the Post that there are plenty of local workers who would be eager to fill the positions.
"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.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Vector99
More to the point, did Mar a Largo place any postings for job openings?
A U.S. Labor Department spokesman told PolitiFact Florida that 93 people applied for 250 seasonal job openings. Four were hired, while 79 didn’t answer interview requests or turned down jobs (10 applications were classified with unknown status).
Documents the resort later filed with the Labor Department showed that many of the American applicants weren’t hired because they didn’t meet requirements. Some applicants didn’t want to work split shifts, or didn’t have enough experience. Many wanted full-time jobs instead of part time, or didn’t respond when the resort contacted them. One applicant said they only were applying as a prerequisite to continue getting unemployment.
In 2015, CareerSource assisted in placing nearly 1,800 candidates in hospitality jobs in Palm Beach County. But Mar-A-Lago didn’t show much interest in using the free service.
Tom Veenstra, senior director of support services at CareerSource in Palm Beach County, told PolitiFact Florida that the first time his office received a request for helping finding workers was September 2015. (That was shortly after one of the first news reports, by Reuters, about Trump’s foreign hiring practice.)
Since that time, Mar-A-Lago used the office to hire just one person, a banquet server. "We called the HR director after the hire, and she said they were pleased with the hire and the candidates we sent them," Veenstra said. "There has been nothing else since then."
There are plenty of local applicants, said Greg Schell, an attorney in Palm Beach County who represents foreign workers. "The local job fairs for hotels and other hospitality jobs are overwhelmed with applicants," he said.