OCEAN CITY -- With the onslaught of the latest batch of foreign summer workers near, an international student workforce conference is set for next week to outline everything from the complexities of the J-1 visa and potential impacts of the Affordable Health Care Act to the prevention of sunburns and the dangers of rip currents.
With the next few weeks, the first of thousands of international student workers will arrive in the resort for the summer season often ill-equipped for the dramatic employment and cultural differences they are about to experience. Often equally in the dark are their employers and landlords not entirely certain of the complexities of their visa requirements, pay scales, available training and working hours and living conditions.
To that end, the Greater Ocean City Chamber of Commerce and its Seasonal Workforce Committee next Tuesday are hosting a seminar to get employers and nearly everyone else who interacts with the international student workforce up to speed on changes to the laws and visa requirements related to what will ultimately make up the majority of the seasonal labor pool. Most of the international student workforce arrives in Ocean City and other locations around the country on a J-1 visa and the laws governing the requirements are somewhat of a moving target.
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I wonder when the conference for American students looking for resort employment is? Oh, I forgot, due to foreign student exemption from having the employer pay unemployment taxes, Americans are more expensive. Uh, they're not interesting in working either.
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