If so, call in at 202 7488000. It, 202 7488001. If you supported oppose it, 202 7488002. You can send us a text at 202 7488003. If you send us a text, let us know your name and where you are from. We are on cspan wj at facebook and on twitter. Very good tuesday morning, you can start calling and now as we take you through the categories facing new visa restrictions through the end of the year and perhaps longer as a result of the president s actions yesterday. Actions would impact foreign forers seeking h1 visas skilled hightech workers, h two visas for seasonal workers, age four visas for spouses. L1 are executives transferring from positions abroad with the same employer. And the action would impact visas including interns, trainers, teachers, au summer work travel participants. This includes some exceptions for those in health care or supporting the Coronavirus Response and for those who work in the country upon food service and Food Supply Chain sectors. As julia of the Migration P
It happened. That is live at one p. M. Eastern here on cspan2 come on by the cspan. Org, or listen live on the free cspan radio app. And a very good tuesday morning. You can start calling in now as we take you through the categories that now face new visa restrictions for the end of the year and perhaps longer as a result of the president s actions yesterday. The action would impact Foreign Workers seeking h1b visas, those for skilled hightech workers. H2b visas for seasonal workers. H4 visas for generally the spouses of h1b visa holders. L1 would also be impacted. Those are usually executives transferring from positions abroad with the same employer and the action wouldld impact certain j1 including interns, trains, teachers, cap counselors, Summer Work Travel Program disciplines. Of course this action yesterday does include some exceptions for those in healthcare or supporting the Coronavirus Response and for those who work in the countrys food service and Food Supply Chain sectors,
Setting now is under the auspices, frankly, of another Insurance Company cigna. So i think that this is opening up a hornets nest in terms of pricing for all of these specialty drugs. I know that they specialize in drugs that have to be administered intravenously, and it can be administered by the members themselves. But there may be other drugs. So i point this out because this is an issue not resolved for this benefit and i think that it deserves our look at it more carefully for all of our contracts that involve this kind of a pharmacy benefit company, a forprofit company, where our members are paying outrageous amounts of money for drugs that are accessible to them in other ways. Yes, thank you. And i think that is exactly why, you know, we are seeking additional contracts with other providers at this time. You know, the way that the benefit is currently set up, the drugs are paid under the medical plan and not the pharmacy plan. Because the fact that there are injectable drugs. Bu
We have a quorum. Could you please read the announcement. Dont to you covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health regulars issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health, they have lifted restrictions. This meeting is held Via Teleconference and held by s sfg tv. Please be aware theres a brief lag time between what is being viewed on sfgtv. I would like to extend our thanks to the staff for the assistance of this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item dial 888 2733658, access code 3107452 and pound followed by pound again. Dial 10 to be added to the speaker line and you will hear an automated voice that when tell you when its your turn to speak and your twominute speaking time will begin. These instructions will be repeated. If they havent done so, ill ask the commission and staff to mute their microphones to minimize background noise. Your first order of business is approval of the minutes of may 26th, 2020. Commissioners, before you, you have the min
Workers facing a long term jobs battle in the u. S. Despite an unexpected drop in unemployment figures. And u. S. Police being too heavy handed to shove thats putting their actions at anti racism rallies into more scrutiny. Also a taste of life after breakfast that people out of work during coronavirus answer a pick for britain rallying call. I do not doubt that the work will be our glamorous and at times challenging but it is of the utmost importance. Good to have you with us welcome to the news our fighters linked to libyas u. N. Recognized government and celebrating the sudden collapse of ward cleaver have to 14 the battle to take over the capital they were taken to see. Good to whom a strategically important base to have to the forces in western libya its about 65 kilometers from the capital tripoli also to bari begins our coverage. Celebrating another important game. Forces for the un backed government of National Accord in control of tarhouni the city was the last major stronghol