{"id":312161,"date":"2019-11-15T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=312161"},"modified":"2019-11-15T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:00:14","slug":"revised-regs-for-recruiting-us-workers-for-temp-non-agri-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/revised-regs-for-recruiting-us-workers-for-temp-non-agri-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised regs for recruiting US workers for temp non-agri jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, DC<\/strong>\u2014The U.S. departments of Labor and Homeland Security posted yesterday a Final Rule\u00a0on the\u00a0Office of Foreign Labor Certification website\u00a0amending the regulations that govern the H-2B temporary non-agricultural labor certification.This rule will aid Americans looking to find and fill some of the 7 million open jobs in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The departments are modernizing and improving the labor market test that the Department of Labor uses to assess whether qualified American workers are available to fill temporary non-agricultural jobs by: (1) rescinding the requirement that all employers advertise in a print newspaper of general circulation in the area of intended employment; and (2) advertising of all H-2B opportunities onSeasonalJobs.dol.gov, the expanded and improved version of DOL\u2019s existing electronic job registry.<\/p>\n<p>These changes will reduce regulatory burdens associated with ineffective recruitment requirements and bring the H-2B visa program into line with the modern recruitment practices of employers and the job-seeking practices of American workers.\u00a0SeasonalJobs.dol.gov, a mobile-friendly and centralized online platform, will offer more robust and personalized search capabilities as well as\u00a0provide information about non-agricultural job opportunities in a format that is compatible with third-party job search websites.<\/p>\n<p>Interested stakeholders may obtain a fact sheet on the new regulations as well as a copy of the Final Rule that will be published in the\u00a0Federal Register\u00a0on the OFLC website at\u00a0www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov.<strong> (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC\u2014The U.S. departments of Labor and Homeland Security posted yesterday a Final Rule\u00a0on the\u00a0Office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[320,1589],"class_list":["post-312161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}