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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS BEWARE! New Definition of “Recruitment Fees” Clarifies What Constitutes Human Trafficking-Related Activities – And It May Not Be What You Think

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JD Supra | 8 February 2019 Can requiring that a job applicant obtain and pay for a passport photo make a U.S. government contractor run afoul of human trafficking rules? Potentially “yes” under a new final rule clarifying what constitutes human trafficking under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”). Since 2015, the U.S. government has prohibited […]

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Planned Trump Order Will Discourage Hiring of Low-Wage Foreign Workers

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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR New York Times :18 April 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at making it harder for technology companies to recruit low-wage workers from foreign countries and undercut Americans looking for jobs. Mr. Trump will also direct all federal agencies to systematically examine

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Lake George, resort areas rely on foreign workers for summer workforce — so what now?

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By: John Cropley | March 16, 2017 The Daily Gazette A key federal program to admit foreign workers to the United States reached its quota this week, leading Lake George and resort areas nationwide to hope there will be enough seasonal workers to run their tourism industries. SUNY Adirondack hosted a job fair Wednesday and

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Wanted: foreign workers — and the labor brokers accused of illegally profiting from them

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19 February 2016, Reuters Investigate Nestor Molina has made a living looking for Honduran workers to pick fruit in Florida. Now, some of the workers he recruited, their lawyers, and the U.S. government are looking for him. Molina, 53, is among the middlemen hired by companies to help bring foreign workers to the United States

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Roles for Workers and Unions in Regulating Labor Recruitment in Mexico

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Jennifer Gordon, Solidarity Center, 2015 SUMMARY “I contend that a key goal of efforts to regulate recruitment should be to reshape the incentives of the entities at the top of the product or service supply chain, so that in turn they become the forces driving compliance by the recruiters below. Likewise, recruiters at the top

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Disney reverses plan to replace tech employees with outsourced workers

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17 June 2015, LA Times Disney has canceled recent plans to replace employees in 30 technology positions with workers from an agency known for outsourcing jobs to immigrants on temporary work visas. Employees of Disney/ABC Television in New York and Burbank first heard of the layoffs in late May. In recent weeks, before the company

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Recruitment Revealed: Fundamental Flaws in the H-2 Temporary Worker Program and Recommendations for Change

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Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, 2014 Executive Summary This report reveals the reality of international labor recruitment for low-wage, temporary jobs in the United States, examining recruitment in Mexico, home to the largest number of temporary migrants who labor under H-2 visas in the U.S.1 The findings are based on data gathered by Centro

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