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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As reported in our prior alert, the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its final rule S trengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States.  Published today in the Federal Register, the Final Rule is effective March 15, 2021.  The rule increases wages employers are required to pay H-1B workers by the percentiles we previously reported for the four wage levels utilized by the DOL—35 th percentile for Level 1, followed by 5...

The Trump Administration announced on January 12, 2021 that it has promulgated a new, final rule that will significantly increase the wages that must be paid to holders of H-1B visas...

On October 6, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule entitled “ th, the DOL is changing its computation of wage levels under the Department’s four-tiered wage structure based on the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage survey administered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This new rule significantly increases the prevailing wages which are required to be paid to all H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 workers. The rule also changes the prevailing wage levels 1-4 from the 17th, 34th, 50th and 67th percentiles to 45th, 62nd, 78th and 95th percentile of surveyed wages. Accord...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As a result of recent federal litigation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Trump Administration's efforts to protect U.S. workers and wages, there have been several U.S. immigration developments. This writing will provide an update of some of these recent U.S. immigration developments and the potential impact on U.S. employers and foreign nationals. U.S. District Court Issues Decision to Set Aside the U.S. Department of Labor's and U.S. Department of Homeland Security's H-1B/PERM rules:  The...