The U.S. Labor Department has withdrawn guidance and a rulemaking related to skilled and agricultural temporary guestworkers that the Trump administration had released less than a week before President
The guidance, released Jan. 15 by the agency’s Employment and Training Administration and Wage and Hour Division, would have required companies that receive H-1B visa workers for contracted work to also petition the DOL for labor certification, along with the main sponsoring company.
On the regulatory side, a final rule governing H-2A visa workers, also released Jan. 15, would have modernized the agricultural ...