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Guest Worker Program
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Global Workplace Insider
Recent Changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program
The highlights of these changes, which now apply throughout Canada except Quebec (with the exception of increased processing fees) are as follows: The "Labour Market Opinion" (LMO) is now called…
Workforce Bulletin
Webinar, April 8: OSHA’s Temporary Worker Initiative
Our colleague Eric Conn, Chair of Epstein Becker Green's OSHA Practice Group, will present a complimentary webinar on April 8, at 1:00 p.m. EDT: OSHA's Temporary Worker Initiative. Topics include…
Workforce Bulletin
Webinar, April 8: OSHA’s Temporary Worker Initiative
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Our colleague Eric Conn, Chair of Epstein Becker Green's OSHA Practice Group, will present a complimentary webinar on April 8, at 1:00 p.m. EDT: OSHA's Temporary Worker Initiative. Topics include…
Workforce Bulletin
Webinar, April 8: OSHA’s Temporary Worker Initiative
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Our colleague Eric Conn, Chair of Epstein Becker Green's OSHA Practice Group, will present a complimentary webinar on April 8, at 1:00 p.m. EDT: OSHA's Temporary Worker Initiative. Topics include…
Global Workplace Insider
New Duties on Employers Hiring Temporary Foreign Workers
The requirements of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in Canada have once again changed. Employers must be aware of the new requirements of the TFWP, the importance of compliance,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Republican Legalization Plan: 6-year Guestworker Status
From Politico:Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is planning to release legislation next week that would provide legal status for six years to undocumented immigrants in the United States, he said in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Subcontractor Servitude
Apropos of Labor Day, Professor Jennifer Gordon writes in this op/ed about the abuse of Jamaican H-2B "guest workers":"[D]ebt, fraud and coercion . . . plague guest-work programs in the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
GAO: Actions Needed to Improve the Transparency and Reliability of Labor’s Data on the H-2A Program
Here is what the U.S. Government Accountability Office found:"The H-2A visa program allows U.S. employers that anticipate a shortage of domestic agricultural workers to hire foreign workers on a temporary…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Human Rights Commission Hearing on Guest Worker Abuse
From Steven Barnes, Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School:March 12 hearing at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to focus on abuses suffered by legal immigrants under temporary guest worker programAs Congress…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Designing Temporary Worker Programs by Hiroshi Motomura
Designing Temporary Worker Programs by Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA School of Law February 6, 2013 Forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 80, p. 101, 2013.Abstract: Some of the…