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The business community may be feeling insecure with the furious debates and often shallow arguments over immigration and undocumented/illegal immigrants. The following is new information from the respected Pew Hispanic Trust which may help you deal with your own customers and employees as well as the broader public. - More than half of recently arrive undocumented immigrants work in construction and services, two sectors of the economy that could suffer if these workers are forced to return home. - One Dallas contractor remarked, “No one is going to leave the country voluntarily, not even those who arrived in this country last week. They would rather keep living in the shadows like they do right now”. - Other industries employing large numbers of newly arrived undocumented workers include: leisure and hospitality, building maintenance, cleaning and landscaping, manufacturing, wholesale and retail, education and health services and agriculture. - Here’s a comparison of immigrant earnings from same new report: new undocumented workers earned on average $480 a week, longer-term workers $580, green card holders $700 weekly, and those who have become U.S. citizens earn $930. If you have questions on this issue or need more information, please call us at 770-953-1225. CLS will be glad to help or find answers for you!
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According to a Kennesaw State University recent ad in several publications, “One in four Mexican-Americans has diabetes and doesn’t know it.” Keep your employees and their families healthy by checking out Project IDEAL at KSU for more information on recognizing and managing this disease.
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There is a variety of overt and subtle discrimination within the Hispanic world. People from some countries may feel that their version of Spanish and their own country’s culture are superior to another Latin American country’s language and culture. This attitude has serious implications for team building and finding effective supervisors.
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