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31 Mar 2021 Senate Republicans are urging President Joe Biden to extend a pandemic-related executive order that prioritizes unemployed Americans for United States white-collar jobs by halting a number of foreign visa worker programs. In June 2020, Trump signed an executive order halting H-1B visas, H-4 visas, H-2B visas, L visas, and J-1 visas while tens of millions of Americans were jobless or underemployed due to economic lockdowns as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis. The order w...

Thursday, 01 Apr 2021 01:56 PM MYT Since January 2021, entry approvals for work pass holders were limited and newly-arrived S Pass and work permit holders — including foreign domestic workers — were required to undergo on-arrival testing and serve stay-home notices. ― TODAY file pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. SINGAPORE, April 1 — Foreign worker levies for all S Pass and work permit holders, including foreign domestic workers, will ...

Read more about Singapore waives levies on foreign workers during stay-home period on Business Standard. Singapore said it would waive levies on foreign workers during their stay-home notice periods from January to September to help employers manage the increased costs associated with the Covid-19 safety

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The Senior Minister said to date, 667,896 foreign workers have been screened, involving 34,653 employers. "From the total, 10,116 of them tested positive while the results for 657,780 came back negative. "To date, 1,542 clinics are involved in the screening programme," he said in a statement on Thursday (April 1). The government made it mandatory for all foreign workers to be screened from Feb 1. Ismail Sabri also said two people have been arrested for travelling interstate and interdistrict wi...

SINGAPORE - Singapores handling of the Covid-19 pandemic featured prominently in the countrys latest report to the United Nations, submitted as part of a routine review of each member states human rights record. During the crisis, Singapore took steps to protect low-income and vulnerable residents, including migrant workers in dormitories, it said, adding that economic and social support measures were also put in place to protect businesses and individuals. "The pandemic has stress-tested all c...

No one is holding American employers to account for their willingness to hire millions of unauthorized immigrants. By Christopher Landau April 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Matt Black for The New York Times Once again, a humanitarian crisis is engulfing our southern border, as tens and potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive from Mexico, Central America and around the world in the hope that the Biden administration will let them in and let them stay. The new administration has cer...

The Straits Times It highlights steps to protect the low-income and the vulnerable, including workers in dormitories Singapores report to the United Nations, submitted as part of a routine review of each member states human rights record, covers a wide range of topics, including the countrys efforts to advance migrant worker well-being and protect women from discrimination.ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG https://str.sg/JCQe They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link...

Joe Biden Giving Companies Second Chance at Outsourcing U.S. Jobs 16 Mar 2021 President Joe Biden is giving companies a second chance at outsourcing American jobs to foreign H-1B visa workers. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the agency will allow companies to reapply for foreign H-1B visa workers who were previously denied such visas when they applied for them over the last four years of former President Trump’s administration. USCIS rescinded thr...

15 Mar 2021 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) said there is not enough support in Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens. Last month, House and Senate Democrats introduced the Biden plan — known as H.R. 1177 & S. 348 — which would give amnesty to the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States while doubling annual legal immigration to the country, flooding the labor market with more foreign comp...