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Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007
A bill to extend the termination date for the exemption of returning workers from the numerical limitations for temporary workers.
Other Bill Titles (2 more) 3/26/2007--Introduced.
Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend through October 1, 2012, the annual cap exemption for returning H-2B aliens (temporary nonagricultural worker). See Full Bill Text
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| Introduced |  | Voted on by Senate | | Voted on by House | | Considered By President | | Bill Becomes Law |
| March 26, 2007 |
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October 05, 2007 Ski Resorts Will Be Devastated Without H2B Workers This Season
Please urge your Senators to support and co-sponsor S. 988. In the House, please ask your Representative to support and co-sponsor HR 1843. ...
September 24, 2007 INDUSTRY BUZZ Next Steps for H-2B Relief
Our activities must continue until an extension of the “Save Our Small and Seasonal Businesses Act” is signed into law (S. 988, HR 1843). If Sept. ...
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April 05, 2008 Take Action Now! Contact your Members of congress to support H-2B ...
Please write your members of Congress a simple e-mail and ask for their immediate their support of The Save Our Small and Seasonal Business Act (S. 988, HR 1843) that would extend the H-2B exemption. This critical legislation will for ...
Source: Legal Blog
January 07, 2008 Recent Expiration of Save Small Business Act H .R.1843/S.988
R.1843/S.988)has created a dire employment situation for small businesses throughout the region as well as on a national level. And Congress has yet to put it back on the docket for an extension into 2008.
Source: Business News
November 01, 2007 Estate Wise Planning Newsletter Vol 1, No. 6, June 2005
Estate Tax Repeal Update: S. 988, Jobs Protection and Estate Tax Reform Act of 2005 (JPETRA â05), was introduced in the Senate May 10, 2005. The federal estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes would be repealed effective for ...
Source: Estate Wise Planning
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This bill provides my company with returning H2B workers. Grant it we only get three workers per year, however the local labor pool is not interested in doing the work that is required for a Garden Center/Landscaping Company and when local labor is hired they usually last one to two weeks before walking off the job. Please consider this bill to allow returning H2B workers to not be part of the cap. As it stands right now, my company is cut out of the cap for 2008 due to the insuficient cap put on H2B visas. My company has been in business for over 50 years and have seen many changes to the greens industry, we have hired many from our community through out the years and still do. However, many of the young people that we used to rely on do not want to do physically demanding jobs, thus they hire in and then quit as stated before. Therefore, we have no choice but to use the H2B program and have had good workers that respect and obey the laws of our country. One of our workers would be returning for the third consecutive year, in 2008, however as it stands now he will not be able to. I have been in contact with him several times this past month, trying to explain to him that our government is not allowing any more workers of his status into the country. He was told by the recruiter at his local recruiting office that he could work for another company, but he refused to do so, because he wants to come back to my company. If this bill does not go through, then we might be forced to seize operations of our landscaping division, thus playing into the downward spiraling economy.
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