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Michael specializes in helping businesses attain guest workers through the H2A and H2B visa program. He works along with the business or farm to ensure the presence of a legal, stable, and qualified workforce at the appropriate times throughout the season. Michael hired the Low Country Labor, LLC’s first workers in 2004 and brings in workers primarily from Mexico and Central America. He estimates a 92% of return rate of workers each year and about 60% of his workers are supporting the agricultural industry in South Carolina. The effort to utilize the program is a viable solution to the current labor challenge faced by South Carolina growers in a major sector of the state’s economy. During the Covid-19 crisis, Michael served on an ad hoc COVID task force that offered weekly advice to then-Vice President Mike Pence.
Michael is currently Chairman of the Board of the National Council of Agricultural Employers (NCAE) and serves on their H2A and Immigration committees. He is also a member of the American Farm Bureau Labor Issue Committee and the SC Farm Bureau Labor Advisory Committee.
Lalich studied Language and International Trade at Clemson University.
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