Mark A Ivener, A Law Corporation

Category: DOL


DOL Implements Nursing Relief Act

The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Wage and Hour Division have published a final rule (PDF), effective April 5, 2010, to implement the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Reauthorization Act of 2005 (NRDARA), which reauthorized the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999 (NRDAA), finalizing these rules “for enforcement purposes.”… Read More

Labor Dept. Announces Centralization of Prevailing Wage Determinations

As of January 1, 2010, the Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification’s National Prevailing Wage and Helpdesk Center (NPWHC) in Washington, DC, will receive and process prevailing wage determination requests for use in the H-1B, H-1B1 (Chile/Singapore), H-1C, H-2B, E-3 (Australia), and permanent labor certification programs. The notice also includes information about processing… Read More

ETA Announces Change in Address for Certain Temporary Labor Certification Filings

The Chicago National Processing Center (NPC) is responsible for adjudicating all employer applications for temporary labor certification under the H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, H-2A, H-2B, H-1C, and D-1 programs. The NPC address has changed as of December 4, 2009. For three weeks after that date, the Chicago NPC will receive via courier all written correspondence submitted… Read More

Labor Dept. Announces Expiration of H-1C Nursing Program

The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced that the H-1C program, established under the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Reauthorization Act, will sunset on December 21, 2009. Congress has not reinstated the program and, absent further legislative action, will no longer accept H-1C attestations from hospitals. The DOL said that questions about the H-1C program… Read More

DOL Extends H-2A Transition Period

The Department of Labor has published an interim final rule (PDF) extending the transition period application filing procedures implemented under the December 2008 H-2A final rule. The application filing procedures under the extended transition period apply to all employers with dates of need before June 1, 2010.