Prevents removal of essential workers with temporary protected status and allows them to adjust to permanent resident status.
The Respect for Essential Workers Act aims to protect certain essential workers with temporary protected status from removal from the United States. It defines essential workers as those in industries such as health care, emergency response, sanitation, and food services. The bill allows these workers to adjust their status to permanent resident, starting 90 days after the act's enactment. This protection applies to those present in the U.S. under temporary protected status on the act's enactment date and working in essential industries or regions with labor shortages.
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