CONGRESS: Memorializes the United States Congress, the President of the United States, the United States Department of Labor, the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the Louisiana Congressional Delegation to take all necessary and appropriate actions to pass the H-2B Certified Seasonal Employer Designation and reclassify all job duties of the crawfish industry as agricultural labor services for purposes of the H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program.

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The concurrent resolution asks the U.S. Congress, the President, the Labor and Homeland Security departments, and Louisiana’s congressional delegation to approve a Certified Seasonal Employer designation and to treat all crawfish industry work as agricultural labor under the H‑2A temporary worker program. It seeks to relieve labor shortages for crawfish processors and landscapers by letting them use the H‑2A program instead of the oversubscribed H‑2B program.

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