guest worker
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Unlike guest workers invited to the country, these often stateless people weren’t allowed to work, instead receiving basic benefits and in many cases not integrating into their new society. — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, "An Ice-Cream Truck Slaying, Party Drugs and Real-Estate Kings: Ethnic Clans Clash in Berlin’s Underworld," 15 Oct. 2018 The Labor Department has also proposed new rules that would require US employers to do a better job advertising open positions to American workers before seeking permission to hire guest workers. — Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, "The G20 summit is a reminder of how little the US is doing for American workers," 26 Nov. 2018 Other evidence suggests North Korea is earning significant sums of money from overseas businesses and guest workers, including North Korean restaurants that were supposed to close but remain open in some countries. — Tom Wright, WSJ, "New Doubts Emerge About U.S.-Led Sanctions on North Korea," 16 Sep. 2018 Farmworker advocates also have attacked the bill, citing concerns including the removal of some labor protections for guest workers, and the undermining of bargaining power. — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, "As Washington growers struggle with labor shortage, vote in Congress on farmworker bill remains elusive," 5 Aug. 2018 Hostility toward guest workers has also bubbled up into violence, as in the case of Garmin engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was killed in a hate crime in Kansas the month after the executive order. — Russell Brandom, The Verge, "Steve Bannon is pushing anti-immigrant policies at an upcoming tech conference," 31 Oct. 2018 To bring in their crops, farmers and growers have increasingly turned to guest workers brought in under the H-2A visa program, which allows foreign workers to do temporary agricultural work in the United States. — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, "As Washington growers struggle with labor shortage, vote in Congress on farmworker bill remains elusive," 5 Aug. 2018 Moscow continues to illegally export oil to North Korea and to hire North Korean guest workers for construction projects in Siberia. — Samuel Ramani, Washington Post, "Why Russia is openly violating sanctions against North Korea," 23 Apr. 2018 Senator Sanders voted against a bill in 2007 that would have given a path to citizenship for 12m undocumented people, on the basis that the proposal also allowed companies to bring in guest workers, undermining unions. — The Economist, "Fork in the roadShould the party move to the left or to the centre?," 12 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'guest worker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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