"Semafor Technologies LLC in Norcross has agreed to pay 73 employees $741,288 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the H-1B visa program, which allows nonimmigrants to work...
Cyrus Mehta, July 31, 2017 - "Those who filed under the FY 2018 H-1B visa lottery and were selected must have been pleased. As premium processing was eliminated, the approvals have just started coming in this summer. Cases that are not readily approved receive...
Matter of Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, Oct. 26, 2016 - "The rub is whether the actual wage is what Woodmen Life paid Garcia ($92,880.77) or whether it should be based on what it paid five other non H-1B System Test Engineers who had similar...
Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, v. Volt Management, June 16, 2016 - "The Administrator of the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (the Administrator) initiated this matter after Sergey Nefedyev complained of wages he hadn’t been...
Allissa Wickham, Law360, Jan. 15, 2016 - "EBS Healthcare Inc. will pay a foreign worker $15,000 to resolve claims it violated the H-1B visa program, the Labor Department said. Administrative Law Judge Adele Odegard signed off on the deal between Labor's...
"If the H-1B worker is non-productive during work hours, if this non-productivity is due to the fault of the employer, employers must still pay the H-1B worker for the non-productive hours. 20 C.F.R. § 655.731(c)(7)(i). However, if the H-1B worker is voluntarily...
Issue Date: 20 September 2011 Case No.: 2011-LCA-00026 In the Matter of ADMINISTRATOR, WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, et al., Prosecuting Parties, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Respondent. DECISION AND ORDER APPROVING SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ...