DOL Startled by Rising Unemployment
February 13, 2009 – 8:09 am
The Department of Labor (DOL) is startled by rising unemployment figures and has started to take steps towards minimizing unemployment and protecting US workers. Nearly 1.2 million jobs were lost in the last five months and 180,000 jobs were lost in the last month alone. DOL is astonished with the fact that millions of US workers are laid off but there is no decrease in PERM filing.
To begin with, DOL has increased supervised recruitment to try and counter continued layoffs. Thus far, after issuing supervised recruitment notices the employers have withdrawn more than half of the cases, creating suspicions that majority of PERM cases filed were sham. DOL will study the layoffs data collected through its field offices and will rigorously pursue supervised recruitments in coming days to ensure employers are properly testing the labor market for availability of US workers.
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