Category: DOL

In anticipation of the enactment of H.J. Res 117, which prohibits the Department of Labor from expending funds to implement the 2011 H-2B wage rule for the duration of that continuing resolution, the Department expects to publish a final rule extending the effective date of the 2011 wage rule to March 27, 2013. It has… Read More

The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) has proposed reorganizing ETA Form 9141, Application for Prevailing Wage Determination; ETA Form 9142, Application for Temporary Employment Certification; and the H-2A Certification Letter With Notification. Specifically, the Department is soliciting comments concerning the collection of data in the following information collections: Office of Management and… Read More

Peri & Sons, a Nevada-based onion grower, has agreed to pay a record total of $2,338,700 in back wages to 1,365 workers, along with a civil money penalty of $500,000, for violations under the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program. An investigation by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division determined that workers employed by… Read More

The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration has requested comments on the labor condition application (LCA) and instructions for H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 nonimmigrants; ETA Forms 9035, 9035E, and 9035CP; and the Wage and Hour Division’s Nonimmigrant Worker Information Form WH-4 (extension with revisions). Among other things the changes in the H-1B LCA would… Read More

On May 7, 2012, the Office of Foreign Labor Certification of the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration released the following statement regarding the preliminary injunction of the H-2B final rule by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida: On April 26, 2012, the Temporary Non-Agricultural Employment of H-2B Aliens in… Read More