January 08, 2013
Groups representing logging, hotel, carnival, sugar cane and commercial crawfish industries asked the Third Circuit on Monday to revive their challenge to a 2011 U.S. Department of Labor rule requiring employers pay minimum wage to foreign workers with H-2B visas.
August 22, 2012
A Pennsylvania federal judge determined Monday that a U.S. Department of Labor rule establishing minimum wage requirements for foreign workers on H-2B visas was valid, in a ruling the agency says could cost employers participating in the program $874 million per year.