When “Temporary” Becomes the Workforce Plan

A recent This American Life segment followed Marie, a certified nursing assistant in a Boston nursing home, as the end of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for Haitians became effective. She had worked at the nursing home for 12 years and was described by her boss as the facility’s best CNA and by a senior nurse leader as “an exemplary CNA.” The story captures the human and operational reality of immigration-status changes.  Do you have any “Marie’s” in your workforce and, if so, how are they doing?