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Temporary Workers
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Immigration Blog
H-2B Visa Update: Additional Temporary Nonagricultural Visas Granted for FY 2024
Congress has approved an additional 64,716 H-2B visas for fiscal year 2024, supplementing the 66,000 available annually. As in prior years, restrictions will apply. A temporary final rule has been…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Illinois Legislature Amends Effective Date of Equal Pay Provisions of Day and Temporary Labor Services Act
By Publisher, Hilarie M. Carhill
It is expected that Governor J.B. Pritzker will sign the amendment into law. This will provide much-needed time for staffing agencies, and the companies that use them, to receive clarification…
Ackah Business Immigration Law
Canada's Temporary Residents Grew 46%: Do You Want To Move To Canada?
By Publisher
Canada is experiencing the highest population growth since 1957, driven mostly by immigration, according to Statistics Canada. International migration accounted for 94.5% of this growth, an increase of 269,305 people…
Inside Business Immigration
DHS Proposes Modernization of H-2 Temporary Visa Programs and Strengthens Worker Protections
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a proposed rule aimed at modernizing the H-2 temporary visa programs, which include the H-2A visa for agricultural workers and the H-2B…
Ackah Business Immigration Law
Canada's New Pilot Program to Fast-Track Hiring Temporary Foreign Workers: Recognized Employer Pilot (REP)
By Publisher
Canadian business owners who have a history of hiring Temporary Foreign Workers will welcome the new fast-track, streamlined pilot program Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is introducing in September…
Chicago Business Attorney Blog
Illinois now requires Long-Term Temps to be paid like Employees
Long-Term Temps to be Paid Like Employees Both Illinois employers that contract with temporary labor service agencies, and those agencies themselves that do business in the state, should review staffing…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
New Jersey Published Proposed Regulations Implementing the “Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights”
Q. Are there any updates related to New Jersey's Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights? A. Yes. As previously reported, in February, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the…
Wage and Hour Defense Blog
New Jersey Department of Labor Proposed Regulations Clarify Requirement That Temporary Workers Be Paid the Same as Clients’ Employees
Earlier this year, on February 6, 2023, the New Jersey Governor signed the Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights into law. On August 21, 2023, the New Jersey Department of Labor…
Wage and Hour Defense Blog
Illinois Requires Comparable Pay for Temporary Workers
By Peter (Pete) A. Steinmeyer, Carolyn O. Boucek
On August 4, 2023, the Governor of Illinois signed HB 2862 into law, amending the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act (DTLS). Under the amendments, temporary labor service agencies…
Who Is My Employee?
Snake & a Hawk: Illinois Passes Temp Worker Law, Imposes New Burdens on Companies
Not a hawk, but I like this picture I took in Utah a couple years ago A woman in Texas was mowing her lawn last month when she was suddenly…