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Nursery Management & Production Magazine

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If you believe the statistics, 60-70 percent of the people employed at our nation’s nurseries are illegal aliens. The public hears this and thinks we’re all just after cheap labor.

In truth, the vast majority of nursery operators pay wages well above minimum wage. We just need people willing to do the temporary, physical work inherent to our business.

And the vast majority of us follow legal hiring protocols to the letter. It’s not until we receive Social Security mismatch letters that we’re aware there’s an issue.

This month we’ll see what happens when the Greenes get a mismatch letter for the company’s longest-standing and most trusted employee. What would you do in this situation?

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   The story so far
 


 

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Should the Greenes sell the company or keep Greene Family Nursery in business?

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Pages 2-3
   Immigration
   The experts' advice
 


 

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