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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is in good company. HS age kids can’t get lifeguarding jobs at our MoCo neighborhood job because the college student lifeguards have taken the spots because they have experience and get hired over HS kids. [/quote]

I noticed this too. Older college kids and [b]foreigners on visas [/b]taking lifeguard jobs local teens used to rely on.[/quote]
No, companies needed to hire out because our kids were too good for these jobs.  Like OP's kids.[/quote]

No.  Some pool management companies hire foreign labor because they can pay these kids substandard wages.  It is really awful, actually.  I don't know how it is even legal.  [/quote]

What? No. Most international lifeguards are here on the J1 SWT program. Businesses have to pay their J1 lifeguards as much as American lifeguards, and at least minimum wage.

Pool management companies hire J1s because they usually can work the entire season: US high schools and colleges start and end before Labor Day/after Memorial Day. Add in vacations, and HS sports/marching band practices that start the first week of August, and local pools have a hard time staffing using local kids. And that’s before the conversation about if local kids are too lazy to work and, unable to pass the life guarding certification, or are holding out for an internship.

International students have different calendars that allow them to be in the US and working during that time (plus their 30 days of “travel” after the pool closes). So the international life guards provide the labor “base” for the full three months, supplemented by local kids who may only be able to work for six weeks or so before they go back to school or fall sports.[/quote]

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