2020-28952: Discretionary Review by the Secretary of Labor
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The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor (DOL) are jointly issuing this notice of proposed rulemaking to seek public comments on a proposal to extend DOL's recently established system of discretionary Secretary of Labor review to H-2B temporary labor certification cases (H-2B cases) pending before or decided by the Department of Labor's Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals and to make technical, conforming changes to regulations governing the timing and finality of those decisions and of decisions from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board in H-2B cases.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 3 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
- 20 CFR 655 Temporary Employment of Foreign Workers in the United States
- 29 CFR 18 Rules of Practice and Procedure for Administrative Hearings Before the Office of Administrative Law Judges
- 29 CFR 503 Enforcement of Obligations for Temporary Nonimmigrant Non-Agricultural Workers Described in the Immigration and Nationality Act
Rulemaking docket
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