Online Job Ads Required to Hire Agricultural Guestworkers (1)

Agricultural employers seeking temporary foreign labor must first recruit U.S. workers online before applying for guestworker visas under a new Labor Department regulation.

The new requirement released Sept. 19 modernizes the previous H-2A agricultural guestworker program rules, which required that employers place two print job advertisements in a newspaper in the area of intended employment.

The idea is to ensure that the required mode of advertising jobs is the best and most efficient way of reaching U.S. workers.

But rather than requiring employers to post the jobs electronically themselves, the final rule says the DOL will advertise all H-2A jobs ...