Ask landscape maintenance company owners what is their biggest challenge and invariably it is finding skilled labor.Joe Gonzalez, owner of ArtisTree Landscape Maintenance & Design in southwest Florida, is one of many company ownerswho have relied on the H2B program until recently. "The U.S. Department of Labor told us we have to employ Americans," says Gonzalez.But finding employees who don't mind hard work is ... hard.James Schwantz, CEO of the Acres Group in Wauconda, Illinois, describes his best employees as self-starters. He's looking for employees "you don't have to poke and prod and tell them what to do every minute of the day. We can go with some young kids outof school, but they've got to be wanting to learn and do the job."
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