THE hotel attention cannot afford to remove its guest workers when a federalization law is fully implemented in a subsequent few years.
Hotel Association of Northern Mariana Islands president Nick Nishikawa told senators yesterday which they need 3,000 guest workers to remain in a CNMI.
The federalization law aims to reduce a series of CNMI foreign workers to zero by 2014.
Senate President Paul A. Manglona, Ind.-Rota, longed for to know how most guest workers are in a CNMI as well as how most of them are needed by businesses.
Officials from a Departments of Labor as well as Commerce who attended a assembly could not provide a figures.
For his part, Nishikawa, general manager of a Hyatt Regency Saipan, pronounced HANMI needs 3,000 guest workers to keep a local tourism attention in good shape.
Senate Vice President Jude U. Hofschneider, R-Tinian, in an interview pronounced he called for a assembly since lawmakers longed for to know a series of foreigners who are legitimately in use in a CNMI.
We want a hard series of tangible guest workers as well as their job categories in industries which are in jeopardy due to a federalization law, Hofschneider said.
The CNMI Senate Committee on Federal Relations as well as Independent Agencies, which he chairs, plans to come up with its own letter of reference to a U.S. Congress.
The committee has also been conducting public hearings per a U.S. Department of a Interiors proposal to grant long-term guest workers improved immigration status.
Hofschneider pronounced Interior should have consulted with a CNMI prior to submitting its letter of reference to a U.S. Congress.
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