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Title 20Employees' BenefitsPart / Section
Chapter VEmployment and Training Administration, Department of Labor600 – 699
Part 655Temporary Employment of Foreign Workers in the United States655.0 – 655.1319
Subpart BLabor Certification Process for Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States (H-2A Workers)655.100 – 655.304
§ 655.100Purpose and scope of this subpart.
§ 655.101Authority of the agencies, offices, and divisions in the Department of Labor.
§ 655.102Transition procedures.
§ 655.103Overview of this subpart and definition of terms.
§ 655.104Successors in interest.
§ 655.120Offered wage rate.
§ 655.121Job order filing requirements.
§ 655.122Contents of job offers.
§ 655.123 [Reserved]
§ 655.124Withdrawal of a job order.
§ 655.130Application filing requirements.
§ 655.131Agricultural association and joint employer filing requirements.
§ 655.132H-2A labor contractor filing requirements.
§ 655.133Requirements for agents.
§ 655.134Emergency situations.
§ 655.135Assurances and obligations of H-2A employers.
§ 655.136Withdrawal of an Application for Temporary Employment Certification and job order.
§ 655.137Disclosure of foreign worker recruitment.
§ 655.140Review of applications.
§ 655.141Notice of deficiency.
§ 655.142Submission of modified applications.
§ 655.143Notice of acceptance.
§ 655.144Electronic job registry.
§ 655.145Pre-determination amendments to applications for temporary employment certification.
§ 655.150Interstate clearance of job order.
§§ 655.151-655.152 [Reserved]
§ 655.153Contact with former U.S. workers.
§ 655.154Additional positive recruitment.
§ 655.155Referrals of U.S. workers.
§ 655.156Recruitment report.
§ 655.157Withholding of U.S. workers prohibited.
§ 655.158Duration of positive recruitment.
§ 655.160Determinations.
§ 655.161Criteria for certification.
§ 655.162Approved certification.
§ 655.163Certification fee.
§ 655.164Denied certification.
§ 655.165Partial certification.
§ 655.166Requests for determinations based on nonavailability of U.S. workers.
§ 655.167Document retention requirements of H-2A employers.
§ 655.170Extensions.
§ 655.171Appeals.
§ 655.172Post-certification withdrawals.
§ 655.173Setting meal charges; petition for higher meal charges.
§ 655.174Public disclosure.
§ 655.175Post-certification changes to applications for temporary employment certification.
§ 655.180Audit.
§ 655.181Revocation.
§ 655.182Debarment.
§ 655.183Less than substantial violations.
§ 655.184Applications involving fraud or willful misrepresentation.
§ 655.185Job service complaint system; enforcement of work contracts.
§ 655.190Severability.
§ 655.200Scope and purpose of herding and range livestock regulations in this section and §§ 655.201 through 655.235.
§ 655.201Definition of herding and range livestock terms.
§ 655.205Herding and range livestock job orders.
§ 655.210Contents of herding and range livestock job orders.
§ 655.211Herding and range livestock wage rate.
§ 655.215Procedures for filing herding and range livestock Applications for Temporary Employment Certification.
§ 655.220Processing herding and range livestock Applications for Temporary Employment Certification.
§ 655.225Post-acceptance requirements for herding and range livestock.
§ 655.230Range housing.
§ 655.235Standards for range housing.
§ 655.300Scope and purpose.
§ 655.301Definition of terms.
§ 655.302Contents of job orders.
§ 655.303Procedures for filing Applications for Temporary Employment Certification.
§ 655.304Standards for mobile housing.