US immigration bill will have negative consequences, warns AESC
16 September 2013
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the worldwide trade association representing the retained executive recruitment industry, has warned of the potential dangers of a major new piece of legislation to the supply of talent into the US.
Mon, 16 Sep 2013
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the worldwide trade association representing the retained executive recruitment industry, has warned of the potential dangers of a major new piece of legislation to the supply of talent into the US.
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, also known as S. 744, would make it possible for many undocumented immigrants to gain legal status and eventually citizenship.
It would also make the border more secure by adding up to 40,000 border patrol agents. It also advances talent-based immigration through a points-based system.
New visas have been proposed, including a visa for entrepreneurs. It also proposes new restrictions on some existing visas as well as additional visas/green-cards for students with STEM [science, technology, engineering and maths] degrees from US institutions. The bill includes a $1.5bn (£0.94bn) youth jobs programme.
The bill was passed by the US Senate by 68-32 votes in June 2013. However, it has yet to be considered by the US House of Representatives.
The AESC argues that while entertainment and tech sector lobbyists in particular have achieved amendments to the Senate bill that will protect their industries from extemporaneous consequences, such as additional fees or lowering the cap on highly skilled sector workers, the executive search industry, responsible for the recruitment of highly-skilled senior management for organisations worldwide, has received no such protections.
It says that while multinational executives, joining professors, researchers, and athletes, would be exempted from existing green-card limits, the bill nevertheless will create unnecessary regulatory provisions for executive search firms.
In a letter to US Senators Charles Schumer and Marco Rubio, Peter Felix, AESC president, writes: "While the AESC is not taking a stance in opposition to the general intentions of the Immigration Bill, we do believe that unintended negative consequences should be prevented if at all possible.
“To impose the regulatory provisions of the bill upon this important consulting service and thus potentially inhibiting the recruitment of the best internationally qualified executives for the benefit of the US economy could be harmful, and in our view, unnecessary. We are hopeful that the appropriate changes will be made to the bill," he adds.
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC), the worldwide trade association representing the retained executive recruitment industry, has warned of the potential dangers of a major new piece of legislation to the supply of talent into the US.
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, also known as S. 744, would make it possible for many undocumented immigrants to gain legal status and eventually citizenship.
It would also make the border more secure by adding up to 40,000 border patrol agents. It also advances talent-based immigration through a points-based system.
New visas have been proposed, including a visa for entrepreneurs. It also proposes new restrictions on some existing visas as well as additional visas/green-cards for students with STEM [science, technology, engineering and maths] degrees from US institutions. The bill includes a $1.5bn (£0.94bn) youth jobs programme.
The bill was passed by the US Senate by 68-32 votes in June 2013. However, it has yet to be considered by the US House of Representatives.
The AESC argues that while entertainment and tech sector lobbyists in particular have achieved amendments to the Senate bill that will protect their industries from extemporaneous consequences, such as additional fees or lowering the cap on highly skilled sector workers, the executive search industry, responsible for the recruitment of highly-skilled senior management for organisations worldwide, has received no such protections.
It says that while multinational executives, joining professors, researchers, and athletes, would be exempted from existing green-card limits, the bill nevertheless will create unnecessary regulatory provisions for executive search firms.
In a letter to US Senators Charles Schumer and Marco Rubio, Peter Felix, AESC president, writes: "While the AESC is not taking a stance in opposition to the general intentions of the Immigration Bill, we do believe that unintended negative consequences should be prevented if at all possible.
“To impose the regulatory provisions of the bill upon this important consulting service and thus potentially inhibiting the recruitment of the best internationally qualified executives for the benefit of the US economy could be harmful, and in our view, unnecessary. We are hopeful that the appropriate changes will be made to the bill," he adds.
