Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), along with a group of 25 other Senators, sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL), expressing concern and frustration over the Department’s H-2B labor certification process. The bipartisan letter explains the complications employers with H-2B workers face when working with the Department, specifically the excessive delays in requesting a prevailing wage determination.
 
“Small businesses in our states rely on this program for seasonal workers, and we are concerned that the U.S. Department of Labor is creating unnecessary and burdensome delays that are causing hardship for American small businesses, consumers, and communities that rely on the jobs and economic growth facilitated by the H-2B program,” the senators wrote.
 
Signing this letter is yet another step Senator Tillis has taken to support North Carolina’s business owners that depend on the H-2B program to sustain their production. Without H-2B workers, many North Carolina employers in the seafood processing, hospitality/tourism, landscaping, and forestry industries will have to shut their doors, and local economies across the country will suffer as thousands of permanent American jobs are contingent upon the visa program.
 
Read the Bipartisan Letter to the DOL Here.