September 11, 2014
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday denied a bid by several migrant farmworker organizations to force the Department of Labor to discontinue invalidated 2008 regulations that govern applications for the employment of foreign workers under the H-2B program, saying the agency's interim use of the rules was reasonable.
April 23, 2013
The U.S. Department of Labor released a rule Monday revising how it calculates prevailing wages for the H-2B temporary foreign worker program, in response to a March court decision that vacated part of a 2008 DOL wage rule that allegedly depressed pay for U.S. workers.
March 21, 2013
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday blocked a 2008 wage rule by the U.S. Department of Labor involving the H-2B visa program for unskilled foreign workers, ruling the department could not proceed with a rule that it admits can depress the wages of U.S. workers.