Last week, FAIR’s government relations team submitted its fifth public comment of the year, urging the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to raise the wages employers are required to pay foreign workers and implement American worker-protection rules that w…
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The Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented new prevailing wage rules that both political parties should get behind – but probably won’t. Taking aim at a system that has crassly commodified H-1B visa workers while displacing qu…
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a notice in the Federal Register that they will refuse to collect the wage data necessary to establish wage rates for H-2A agricultural guestworkers. This will have the effect of lowering wages for workers…
Both NPR and the New York Times reported that wages are rising for low-income workers. Wages for these earners are rising faster than those in high-earning jobs. Ernie Tedeschi, the author of the Times’ piece, noted that “recent growth for workers with…