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Jennifer Emerling / There Is More Work To Be Done

H-2A workers, recruiting domestic workers first (12/10/18)

Agency Department of Labor
Action Proposed rule
Date 12/10/18
Link https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/12/10/2018-26766/modernizing-recruitment-requirements-for-the-temporary-employment-of-h-2a-foreign-workers-in-the

The Dept. of Labor is extending the comment period for its Nov. 9, 2018 proposal to require employers to advertise online instead of in newspapers when they try to recruit domestic farmworkers before hiring H-2A workers from outside the US. Rather than being due Dec. 10, comments are now due Dec. 28, 2018.