New York is considering easing the qualifications needed for thousands of jobs to hire migrants who are legally able to work in the US.
Officials in Albany are hoping to create a system in which migrants who have received federal work authorization can participate in the state workforce, according to the New York Post.
A report from the state Civil Service Commission states that agencies in New York have determined that 40,000 governmental jobs may be filled by migrant labour.
Many of the ‘hard-to-recruit entry-level titles’ require basic qualifications, including proficiency in English, proof of education, and prior employment, but foreign employees would be allowed to flout these.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Governor Kathy Hochul said that she has ‘prioritised modernising our State workforce and eliminating red tape, and she has instituted a series of reforms to achieve that goal.’
‘This initiative, which has not yet been implemented, would offer temporary employment opportunities available for anyone who can legally work in the United States,’ they added.
During a Tuesday budget hearing, State Department of Civil Service Commissioner Timothy Hogues expressed the department’s excitement about the development.
He explained that the recommended changes would be similar to already existing requirements for apprenticeship programmes and that, if adopted, the lowered standard of requirements would apply to all New Yorkers.
‘This is no different from our traineeships and apprenticeships that we have that allow individuals to up-skill or get the time on the job to be able to meet the qualifications,’ he said.
‘This is just a bigger part of our holistic approach to opening up government, making these jobs available and reducing the barriers.’
Under the proposed idea, migrant workers with no formal education and maybe no English language proficiency might be hired for employment in food service, secretarial work, and caring for people with mental disabilities.
According to the memo, the State and its agencies will benefit mutually from permitting migrants with federal workforce approval to work in these capacities, as they will be better equipped to ‘connect qualified and motivated individuals with meaningful jobs and opportunity; help solve the migrant crisis; and rebuild the State workforce.’
According to Hochul’s prior statement, her agency has located over 40,000 unfilled positions in the state where firms are receptive to hiring migrant labour.
Obtaining federal work permission is a laborious procedure for a portion of the 47,000 migrants who are presently receiving refuge in New York.
The problem is that there’s a difference between immigration decades ago and now. Before we had a welfare state, there was no cushy welfare to lure people here. They had to work hard, integrate, and learn a common language if they wanted to come over. Now it’s a whole different situation.
This would facilitate the deliberate taking of elderly people by the American government, which has been done for years.
What more could go wrong? Besides everything.
The actual motivation for Democrats’ desire for them in the US is obvious: the ability to vote.
Caring for people with mental disabilities. That’s an excellent idea—having a stranger in your home that not even the government knows a thing about. Caring for your sick parent, who, by the way, can’t communicate with you because they don’t speak a word of English—what could possibly go wrong here?
Caregivers to the disabled with no background check, unable to speak the language and no training or education. This is so wrong on so many different levels, it’s scary.
The government is giving jobs to illegals with no background checks; it’s unheard of. Well, if that’s the case, that privilege should be open to New Yorkers, and why weren’t these requirements waived before for citizens who can speak English? Then they would have had the same opportunity.
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