# Modernizing Recruitment Requirements for the Temporary Employment of H-2B Foreign Workers in the United States
> **Wage and Hour Division** · Final rule. · Published 2019-11-15 · Effective 2019-12-16 · 84 FR 62431
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-24832
- **Category:** wage-hour
- **Sub-agency:** Wage and Hour Division
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 62431
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 655
- **Publication date:** 2019-11-15
- **Effective date:** 2019-12-16
- **DOL docket:** DOL Docket No. ETA-2018-0003
## Abstract

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) (collectively, the Departments), are jointly issuing this final rule to amend the regulations governing DOL's certification of nonagricultural labor or services to be performed by temporary foreign workers in H-2B nonimmigrant status (H-2B workers). Pursuant to Section 214(c)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), this certification serves as DHS's consultation with DOL regarding whether a qualified United States (U.S.) worker is available to fill the petitioning H-2B employer's job opportunity, and whether a foreign worker's employment in the job opportunity will adversely affect the wages or working conditions of similarly employed U.S. workers. This final rule modernizes and improves the labor market test that DOL uses to assess whether qualified U.S. workers are available by: Rescinding the requirement that an employer advertise its job opportunity in a print newspaper of general circulation in the area of intended employment, and expanding and enhancing DOL's electronic job registry to disseminate available job opportunities to the widest audience possible.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/15/2019-24832/modernizing-recruitment-requirements-for-the-temporary-employment-of-h-2b-foreign-workers-in-the)
---
*AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*