{"id":2928,"date":"2020-09-21T06:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2020-09-21T06:35:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:35:37","slug":"labor-prevailing-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/labor-prevailing-minimum\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Labor Rule Expected to Raise Prevailing Wage Minimums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing a Department of Labor (DOL) rule that is seeking to make a restructuring to the wage level system to establish prevailing wage minimums in the H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 and PERM programs.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation is expected to increase the prevailing wage minimum requirements for the H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and PERM programs, though the contents of the regulation will remain confidential until they are released publicly for publication.<\/p>\n<p>Further, DOL is expected to issue the regulation as an interim final rule with immediate or near immediate impact, with no opportunity for public feedback before the rule takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>OMB has up to 90 days to review the regulation before it is published in the Federal Register and then take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is reviewing a Department of Labor (DOL) rule that is seeking to make a restructuring to the wage level system to establish prevailing wage minimums in the H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3 and PERM programs. The regulation is expected to increase the prevailing wage minimum requirements for the H-1B, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,8,9,11,38,10,41],"tags":[96,162,171,26,60],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment-based-iv","category-general-immigration","category-general-news","category-h-1b","category-immigration-news","category-latest-news","category-non-immigrantp-visas","category-visas","tag-department-of-labor","tag-nonimmigrant","tag-prevailing-wage","tag-uscis","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}