Employment and Training Administration June 28, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Labor (the Department or DOL) proposes to amend the effective date of Wage Methodology for the Temporary Non- agricultural Employment H-2B Program; Final Rule, 76 FR 3452, January 19, 2011, (the Wage Rule). The Wage Rule revised the methodology by which the Department calculates the prevailing wages to be paid to H-2B workers and United States (U.S.) workers recruited in connection with a temporary labor certification for use in petitioning the Department of Homeland Security to employ a nonimmigrant worker in H-2B status. The effective date of the Wage Rule was set at January 1, 2012.