Discretionary Review by the Secretary of Labor

Status: In force. The effective date has passed and nothing here records a change to that.

From the published effective date. Nothing here records a court changing it.

• Document number: 2020-28951
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: January 4, 2021
• Effective: February 3, 2021
• Comments close: January 19, 2021
• Agency: Homeland Security Department; Labor Department; Employment and Training Administration; Office of the Secretary; Wage and Hour Division

Official abstract

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor (DOL) are jointly issuing this direct final rule to extend DOL's recently established system of discretionary Secretary of Labor review to H-2B temporary labor certification cases (H-2B cases) pending before or decided by the Department of Labor's Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals and to make technical, conforming changes to regulations governing the timing and finality of those decisions and of decisions from the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board in H-2B cases.

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