guest worker
noun
: a foreign laborer working temporarily in an industrialized usually European country
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Last summer, former President Donald Trump issued a proclamation suspending a number of visa programs, including guest worker visas, like the H-1B. Tech companies commonly use these visas to recruit talented employees from overseas. 
Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 Jan. 2021 That stands in sharp contrast to other types of guest worker programs, including one with a wider name recognition and footprint in Georgia: the booming H-2A program for migrant farmworkers, which brought in 35,000 workers in 2021. Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 5 Aug. 2022 Some growers rely on workers brought in under the H-2A guest worker program, which ensures a stable workforce but drives costs higher, as the conditions of the visa require employers to provide housing, food and a minimum wage of $17.51 for 2022. Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 That problem can be solved all over America with a guest worker program. Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022 That began to change about a decade ago, when the first of dozens of young, white workers flew in from South Africa on special guest worker visas. New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 In December, the government announced that 20,000 seasonal guest worker visas would be added to the allotment of 33,000 for the winter to assist employers in landscaping, construction and hospitality, areas that are desperately in need of workers. The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2022 The agricultural guest worker program, known by the shorthand H-2A, was once shunned by farmers here and elsewhere as expensive and bureaucratic. New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 The agricultural guest worker program, known as H-2A, allows agricultural employers to hire temporary workers from outside the U.S. to address labor shortages. Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021 See More
Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 Jan. 2021 That stands in sharp contrast to other types of guest worker programs, including one with a wider name recognition and footprint in Georgia: the booming H-2A program for migrant farmworkers, which brought in 35,000 workers in 2021. Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 5 Aug. 2022 Some growers rely on workers brought in under the H-2A guest worker program, which ensures a stable workforce but drives costs higher, as the conditions of the visa require employers to provide housing, food and a minimum wage of $17.51 for 2022. Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 That problem can be solved all over America with a guest worker program. Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022 That began to change about a decade ago, when the first of dozens of young, white workers flew in from South Africa on special guest worker visas. New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 In December, the government announced that 20,000 seasonal guest worker visas would be added to the allotment of 33,000 for the winter to assist employers in landscaping, construction and hospitality, areas that are desperately in need of workers. The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2022 The agricultural guest worker program, known by the shorthand H-2A, was once shunned by farmers here and elsewhere as expensive and bureaucratic. New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021 The agricultural guest worker program, known as H-2A, allows agricultural employers to hire temporary workers from outside the U.S. to address labor shortages. Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 9 Dec. 2021 See More Word History
Etymology
translation of German Gastarbeiter
First Known Use
1960, in the meaning defined above