Commonwealth Only Transitional Workers News Today

Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC director/general manager Howyo Chi said last week that it will cost IPI $150 million to finish IPI’s casino/resort building in Garapan.

CNMI Labor Secretary Leila Staffler on Tuesday said the U.S. Congress is unlikely to remove the “touchback” provision of the NMI U.S. Workforce Act of 2018, which means that local

The Saipan Chamber of Commerce is sending a delegation to Washington, D.C. before the end of the month to support Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan’s (D-MP) bill to delay for three years the “touchback provision” of the Northern Marianas Islands U.S. Workforce Act, Public Law 115-218.

AT the general membership meeting of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, its president, Joe Guerrero, called for “all hands on deck” to support U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho

Even as only a handful of foreign workers were interviewed for this report, the consensus is clear: the livelihoods of those who rely solely on their jobs in the CNMI are in jeopardy once the touchback rule comes into effect in October this year.

U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan on Tuesday introduced H.R. 1420 "to modify the requirement to remain outside of the United States for Commonwealth Only Transitional Workers."

DEAR Honorable Congressman,

MEMBERS of the Bangladesh Muslim Community are suffering too, Muhammad Rafiqul Hassan said. Typhoons Soudelor and Yutu, which battered Saipan in 2015 and 2018, affected everyone, including workers on CW-1 permit, but many were not eligible to receive any assistance from the CNMI government or the Federal Emergency Management Authority, said Hassan, speaking on behalf of the BMC. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has shut down the tourism industry since last year, Hassan said CWs are, again, not e...