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August 3, 2020
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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday, August 3 that will curtail the H-1B outsourcing of jobs at government agencies, including the government-controlled Tennessee Valley Authority, according to Breitbart News.
“We believe jobs must be offered to American workers first,” Trump told attendees at a signing event in the White House.
Reportedly, the H-1B program has been used by staffing companies to fill roughly 18,000 jobs in government agencies with foreign contract-workers.
A White House statement said:
“President Trump is signing an Executive Order to create a policy where Federal agencies will focus on United States labor in lucrative Federal contracts.”
“It would be unfair for Federal employers to replace perfectly qualified Americans with workers from other countries.”
“The Executive Order will require all Federal agencies to complete an internal audit and assess whether they are in compliance with the requirement that only United States citizens and nationals are appointed to the competitive service.”
“The Department of Labor will also finalize guidance to prevent H-1B employers from moving H-1B workers to other employers’ job sites to displace American workers.”
“Outsourcing hundreds of workers is especially detrimental in the middle of a pandemic, which has already cost millions of Americans their jobs,” the statement said.
“President Trump’s actions will help combat employers’ misuse of H-1B visas, which were never intended to replace qualified American workers with low-cost foreign labor.”
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