OFLC, July 1, 2024 "The Office of Foreign Labor Certification has published the latest prevailing wage data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) as generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the new wage year from July 2024 through...
Daniel Costa, Economic Policy Institute, Aug. 18, 2022 " Data from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services shows that there were nearly 117,000 H-2B workers in 2021 , and the program is projected to grow to more than 150,000 workers in 2022 ,...
Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED, July 16, 2022 "A multi-billion dollar private prison company has allegedly maximized profits by coercing immigrant detainees locked up at two of its facilities in California to work for $1 a day, according to a class action...
"After seven years of legal battling, 66 farmworkers from Mexico’s Colima state have been fully paid for work in orchards and vineyards in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Even though the workers’ claims have been settled, a farm labor contractor and four...
"Former McDonald's franchisee Cheung Enterprises LLC and president Andrew Cheung, based in Middletown, have agreed to pay $205,977 in back wages and liquidated damages to 291 employees, including 178 foreign student workers hired under the U.S. State Department's...
"In the annals of degrading, infuriating labor practices, this one may take a prize: Meet the cleaning workers who received … zero-dollar paychecks. Now, defying alleged deportation threats and protesting those empty paychecks, a handful of striking guest...
"Peruvian shepherds on guest worker visas tend thousands of sheep in Wyoming, but they only make about half of what agricultural workers elsewhere are paid. Under the U.S. Senate's newest immigration proposal, these guest workers would receive a special...
In this blockbuster 2-part report by NPR's Wade Goodwin , construction in Texas comes under the microscope. Highlights: April 10, 2013 - "Homebuilding and commercial construction may be an economic driver for the state, but it's also an industry...
"Semafor Technologies LLC in Norcross has agreed to pay 73 employees $741,288 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the H-1B visa program, which allows nonimmigrants to work...
"Hear that? That's the sound of holes being poked in one of the most common arguments for pushing undocumented workers out of America. Undocumented workers have a "negligible impact" on the wages of documented workers that work at the same...
"The District Court of the Southern District of New York ordered TYT East Corp., owner of the failed Jin Hua Restaurant, to pay unpaid wages and overtime to Jin Hua's former staff of Asian immigrant workers." - AALDEF, Mar. 23, 2012 .
My hero, Andrew Free , reports: "For those considering how labor litigation challenge contractors abuses of so-called “Volunteer” Work Programs may lend support to folks inside ICE’s for-profit human cages, please find attached a Memo regarding new filings...
Cyrus Mehta, July 31, 2017 - "Those who filed under the FY 2018 H-1B visa lottery and were selected must have been pleased. As premium processing was eliminated, the approvals have just started coming in this summer. Cases that are not readily approved receive...
Matter of Lee Johnson Capital Mgmt., LLC, Dec. 21, 2016 - "We find that the Employer‟s duties for the position of Senior Quantitative Analyst are most similar to the tasks provided in SOC code 13-2099.01, Financial Quantitative Analysts. The supervisory duties...
Matter of Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, Oct. 26, 2016 - "The rub is whether the actual wage is what Woodmen Life paid Garcia ($92,880.77) or whether it should be based on what it paid five other non H-1B System Test Engineers who had similar...