10 Dec 2016 12:25 am
Trump has been spouting a new slogan at his Victory Tour rallies: "Two simple rules...buy American and hire American."
Looks like he broke one of his own simple rules....again.
Trump won approval to hire 64 foreign workers for his Mar-a-Lago resort through the federal government’s H-2B visa program.
He's also giving them a cut in pay from last year even though for many people wage growth has started to accelerate and annual raises reached 2.5 percent for the 12 months ending in November.
Looks like he broke one of his own simple rules....again.
Trump won approval to hire 64 foreign workers for his Mar-a-Lago resort through the federal government’s H-2B visa program.
He's also giving them a cut in pay from last year even though for many people wage growth has started to accelerate and annual raises reached 2.5 percent for the 12 months ending in November.
So the champion of working class Americans hired one American worker in 10 years.Trump again hires foreign workers for Mar-a-Lago
CareerSource Palm Beach County, a nonprofit job placement agency, says it knows plenty of American citizens willing to work at Mar-a-Lago.
“We have hundreds of qualified candidates and hundreds of job orders for various hospitality positions such as servers, chefs, cooks, bartenders, housekeeping, guest services, spa services, recreation, maintenance and more,” CareerSource spokesman Tom Veenstra said.
While Mar-a-Lago asks the federal government for dozens of H-2B visas every tourist season, the private club has asked CareerSource for help finding a local employee only once in the past decade, Veenstra said.
That was a 2015 request for a single banquet server.