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DHS OKs Huge H-1B Visa Reform to Help U.S. Graduates 8 Jan 2021 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is helping U.S. graduates by ending the lottery for H-1B foreign workers that has allowed Fortune 500 CEOs to import mid-skilled, poorly-paid foreign graduates for the starter jobs needed by U.S. graduates. The new process will allocate the annual supply of 85,000 H-1B visas to corporations that offer the highest pay. The ranking system will end the economic incentive to hire mid-skilled H-1B foreign workers instead of younger American graduates. Currently, companies, universities, and ho...

When Flavio first heard about a temporary farm work program in the United States, it sounded like a great deal. Everything from his salary to his housing would be guaranteed in advance by his employer, who would also sponsor his visa. He forked over more than $1,000 to a recruiter in Mexico and was approved in April for an H-2A agricultural visa through a farm labor contractor. These contractors, a small but fast-growing part of the legal migrant worker system, hire laborers directly and then pair them with farmers. They are also notorious for human trafficking, and many have a background in ...

But it’s not the farm owners who are the biggest scofflaws, a new report finds. It’s the middlemen. Farm work is one of the toughest jobs in America. Crop pickers and field hands labor in potentially killer heat for low pay, usually without the benefit of health insurance. During the pandemic, the cramped conditions in dormitories and fields have made them especially susceptible to virus spread. And now, a new report shows, their bosses are more likely to stiff them on wages. Between 2000 and 2019, the federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) conducted more than 31,000...

Farm employers in the United States have withheld $76m in wages from 154,000 workers over the past 20 years, a new analysis of federal data has found, and wage theft and workplace safety issues in the agricultural sector are likely much, much worse. The US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division conducted more than 31,000 investigations on US farms between fiscal years 2000 and 2019 and levied $63m in civil penalties for workplace violations, according to an analysis published on Tuesday by the progressive-leaning think-tank Economic Policy Institute. But those violations are likely ju...

>> 15,000 additional h-2b visas will be made available for the rest of the year, well surpassing the previous limit of 66,000. they are more migrant workers who want temporary jobs in landscaping, seafood or construction. in fact, president trump has utilized this particular visa for seasonal workers at his resort. >> we have to put ads in the paper, and we have to advertise from, you know, about a month. >> businesses must provide the feds with proof on how they tried to attract americans first, a company also has to attest their firms would suffer permanent irreparable harm if they did not i...