Georgia labor commissioner says immigration reform will bring worker shortage

Increasing government restrictions on the hiring of illegal immigrants will eventually lead to a labor shortage in Georgia and the nation, the state’s labor commissioner said Wednesday.

Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond said employers should start changing their attitudes toward hiring “marginalized” workers such as convicted criminals, disabled people and the elderly.

“We must begin now to reconfigure programs, to change philosophies and recognize that cheap, undocumented labor from Mexico and other foreign shores will no longer be an available source,” Thurmond told reporters in Savannah, where the Georgia Workforce Conference is being held.”*

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