Many of our clients and readers are asking us on updates regarding the Department of Labor's (DOL) prevailing wage determination process. We are happy to report that according to DOL reports and according to our first-hand experience, prevailing wage determinations are issued and they are (slowly) starting to return to normal. Background on the DOL [...]
On March 25, 2010, the Department of Labor ("DOL") held a stakeholders telephone conference to discuss DOL operations generally, and address PERM, iCERT prevailing wage and other specific areas. We are happy to share some interesting pieces of information from DOL. PERM Processing. With respect to PERM processing, DOL has made efforts to decrease its [...]
Effective January 1, 2010, the Department of Labor (DOL) centralized all prevailing wage determinations needed in connection with certain programs - PERM, H-1B, H-2B and E-3. All prevailing wage requests now must be submitted to DOL for processing and not to the state workforce agencies, as it was done before. Because DOL was not ready [...]