Not surprisingly, allowing nonresident workers to register for nonexistent jobs embodies the CNMI’s generous labor policy toward its nonresident (guest) workers, a policy that has ironically been anti-U.S./resident workers as far as wages and benefits are concerned.
For example, where are the medical benefits that are supposed to go to resident hires as embodied in the CNMI Employment Act?
Now, before Labor goes on to approve two-year permits for thousands of nonresident workers, shouldn’t they first make it a point to make certain that no local resident who wants a job is without a job? It would be a travesty to have hundreds of U.S. citizens unemployed while nonresident workers are working.
And hurry up, fan, and give us some benefits just like our nonresident workers. Surely, benefits that are good to our guest workers are probably just as good for U.S. resident workers. As they say, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
SILECH TEREI
Upper Navy Hill, Saipan
