Georgia attorney general Chris Carr spearheaded a coalition of 14 states this week in applauding Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta’s efforts to allow small businesses to become eligible to participate in Association Health Plans (AHPs) and urging an expansion of the program to be open to more American small business owners.
Hartogensis is married to the sister of McConnell’s wife Elane Chao. Chao is also the Secretary of Transportation in Trump’s cabinet.
Alfredo Ortiz and Thomas Price write in USA Today that the Department of Labor is going to be able to offer small businesses a measure of relief from spiraling health care costs.
American manufacturing expanded at a stronger pace than expected in January, close to the fastest pace since 2004.
The number of American workers receiving unemployment benefits has fallen to its lowest level in 44 years, according to government sources.
U.S. employers added 148,000 jobs in December, a modest gain but still enough to suggest that the economy entered the new year with solid momentum.
President Donald Trump will propose a new Labor Department regulation that will allow health insurers to sell insurance across state lines.
The Donald Trump administration hopes to revive a regulation requiring drug testing for unemployment benefits.
Businesses across the country are using the H-2B visa in order to import a foreign workforce that is much cheaper to employ than hiring American workers, new wage data reveals.
The number of claims for unemployment benefits plunged to its lowest level since 1973 as the job market remains strong, according to Department of Labor figures released Thursday.
Whistleblowers are speaking up about alleged abuses and fraud in H-1B visa program and its impact on Americans.
United States job openings soared to record highs in June as the demand for labor continues to increase, according to the latest second-quarter data on employment that the Department of Labor released Tuesday.
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the farm lobby has demanded access to cheaper, foreign workers through the H-2A visa program.
Ahead of a meeting between with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lawmakers are demanding President Donald Trump drop his executive order calling for a legal review of the H-1B visa.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Monday kicks off the Trump administration’s “workforce development week” during which senior officials will hold roundtables with government, private industry and American workers while President Donald Trump will announce immediate plans for substantial administrative actions.
A number of the largest tech corporations in Silicon Valley hide their hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa by contracting them through India-based outsourcing firms, a report states.
The Department of Labor is accusing an Arizona farm company of abusing the terms of the H-2A visa, where foreign workers are brought over for farm jobs.
The Labor Department announced that it will increase protections for Americans as much as it can, while cracking down on fraud and abuse within various foreign guest worker programs.
A pro-American employee organization is asking Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly to not expand a visa program that outsources blue-collar jobs.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly has promised the big business lobby tens of thousands of cheaper, blue-collar foreign workers despite President Donald Trump’s ‘Hire American’ initiative.
A big business lobby is pushing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand the H-2B visa, which already offers 66,000 blue-collar American jobs to cheaper, foreign laborers every year.
Nationwide mandatory E-Verify, which would weed out the vast majority of American businesses hiring illegal aliens, may be coming sooner than expected.
The foreign outsourcing industry is increasing its H-1B visa lobbying efforts to ensure the flow of foreign labor continues as the Trump Administration conducts a full legal review of the program.
A majority of employers say that President Donald Trump’s expected reforms to the H-1B foreign guest worker visa program will move jobs back to the U.S.
The largest agriculture pro-outsourcing organization says President Donald Trump has “assured” them that the current flow of foreign workers in the farming industry will continue unreformed.
A trades union representing American blue-collar construction workers says a plan to expand the H-2B low-skilled foreign guest worker visa is “directly counter” to President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” agenda.
The Washington Post is drumming up hysteria over an American labor shortage if the H-2B foreign guest worker visa is limited by the Trump Administration, despite no evidence indicating a crunch.
The big business and open borders lobbies are praising an expansion of the H-2B foreign guest worker visa included in the 2017 budget.
Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) is singling out the H-1B visa program in a new op-ed for its harmful impact on American workers.
As Congress is pushed by the big business lobby and open borders organizations to expand the number of low-skilled, non-farm workers entering the U.S. every year, the national unemployment rate coupled with stagnant wages indicate the harm done by the H-2B visa to American workers, according to experts.
A lobbyist for a farming organization that favors outsourcing American jobs to foreign workers will become a Senior Adviser in President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department.
The number of people out-of-work collecting unemployment dropped to a 7-year low in April, according to new data from the Department of Labor.
President Donald Trump is getting praise from experts on the H-1B foreign guest worker visa for his ‘Hire American’ Executive Order which calls for a review into the system’s abuse at the expense of American workers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, President Donald Trump will give a major speech on “Buy American, Hire American” as he signs a new Executive Order at Snap-On Tools in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s district — but Ryan is away on a congressional delegation in Europe… an Administration official telling Breitbart News that their schedules simply “did not mesh on this.”
The big business lobby, which profits from hiring foreign labor over American workers, is pushing for an expansion of the H-2B foreign guest worker visa. Americans would be laid off from those seasonal jobs in the process.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller held a closed door meeting this week at the White House to discuss the controversial H-1B foreign guest worker visa program.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is laying off staff at their Washington, DC headquarters after the organization spent $61 million on political activities and $19 million on the Fight for $15 movement, according to a new report.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) asked a San Francisco federal judge on April 7 to compel Google to provide detailed data regarding systemic gender pay discrimination.
Jobless claims by U.S. workers posted their biggest decline in nearly two years, a further indication of the strengthening of the U.S. labor market.
American businesses created far more jobs than expected in March, with the private sector alone adding 263,000 jobs during the month.
