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Title

Leveling the Playing Field: Reforming the H-2B Program to Protect Guestworkers and U.S. Workers

Authors

Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic
National Guestworker Alliance

Files

Description

This report highlights cases of exploitation from Texas to Tennessee, and calls for four indispensible reforms that would end employer abuse and protect both guest workers and U.S. workers: (1) Guaranteeing guest workers the right to organize without fear of retaliation; (2) Prohibiting employers from using guest workers as cheap, exploitable alternatives to U.S. workers; (3) Eliminating debt servitude and other elements of human trafficking in the program; and (4) Subjecting employers to meaningful government enforcement and community oversight.

Publication Date

6-21-2012

Disciplines

Immigration Law | Labor and Employment Law

Recommended Citation

Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic and National Guestworker Alliance, "Leveling the Playing Field: Reforming the H-2B Program to Protect Guestworkers and U.S. Workers" (2012). Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic Publications. 2.
https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/irc_pubs/2