On December 19, 2008, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a
final rule regarding the Labor Certification Process and Enforcement
for Temporary Employment in Occupations Other Than Agriculture or
Registered Nursing in the United States (H-2B Workers), and Other
Technical Changes. The Final Rule implemented a federalized process for
obtaining prevailing wage determination requests for use in the H-2B
temporary non-agricultural labor certification program directly from
the Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) appropriate National
Processing Center (NPC)–which was designated as the Chicago NPC of the
final rule. Beginning on January 1, 2010, the aforementioned final rule
would also federalize prevailing wage determination process for use in
the H-1B, H-1B1 (Chile/ Singapore), H-1C, E-3 (Australia), and the
permanent labor certification programs.
Effective on January 1, 2010, the processing of all PWD requests for
the above-referenced labor certification programs will be centralized
in the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC)’s National
Prevailing Wage and Helpdesk Center (NPWHC) in Washington, DC. The
NPWHC will receive and process prevailing wage determination requests
in accordance with the applicable regulations and DOL guidance.
The procedure is making a prevailing wage determination is as follows:
- Requestors must submit prevailing wage determination requests
using the Application for Prevailing Wage Determination (Form ETA-9141).
- Requestors must submit prevailing wage determination requests to
the NPWHC by U.S. Mail or comparable physical delivery service at the
following address: U.S. Department of Labor-ETA, National Prevailing
Wage and Helpdesk Center, Attn: PWD Request; 1341 G Street, NW., Suite
201, Washington, DC 20005- 3142.
- Employers are to use Wage Documentation for H-1B, H-2B and Permanent Labor Certification Programs.
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