Court Decides H-2B Visas Should Be Protected by Prevailing Wages to Avoid Hurting American Workers [View all]

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The Third District Court of Appeals handed American workers a victory with their ruling in the case of Louisiana Forestry Association v. Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor. The court found that the Department of Labor’s wage regulation methodology is valid pertaining to H-2b visas, meaning the Department of Homeland Security must rely on the Labor Department’s decisions about the number of American workers available for a job.

As we have reported in the past, the system of H-2b visas, which are supposed to go to foreign workers if and only if their is a shortage of American workers in a given area/industry, has been rife with corruption and abuse. In many industries, such as Information Technology, American workers are left out to dry while their jobs go to foreign workers for pennies on the dollar. But the Third District decision would allow the Labor Department to set prevailing wages for the jobs in question and ensure there were not Americans who could fill the jobs before H-2b visas were issued. This disincentivizes outsourcing as the employer can not save money by hiring foreign workers.

The people who oppose a prevailing wage for H-2B visas are doing so in order to blatantly cut labor costs and exploit foreign labor at the expense of the American worker.

Economic Policy Institute writer Ross Eisenbrey explains the situation:

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About the Author: Chaz Bolte

Chaz Bolte is a native of Pittsburgh, PA where he attended Slippery Rock University. He currently contributes to WePartyPatriots, Addicting Info, Secret Party Room, and Football Nation. You can follow him on Twitter @ChazBolte