Event Coverage

The H-1B Program and Labor Certification: Attestation and PERM
January 18, 2008
Executive Summary

The Sloan West Coast Program on Science and Engineering Workers held its first seminar January 18, 2008 at UC Davis to discuss the US Department of Labor´s role in admitting foreign scientists and engineers as temporary workers and as immigrants. The three major sessions dealt with the US Department of Labor´s handling of employer attestations and certifying the need for immigrants to fill particular job vacancies and enforcing program rules, the impacts of foreign scientists and engineers on US workers, and the views of employer and worker advocates on the H-1B program.

The next seminar will focus on S & E workers and the IT business cycle, asking what happens to those who enter the industry during booms, such as in the late 1990s, when there is a bust? Do they return to the IT industry when hiring resumes or stay in other jobs? The seminar will be May 12-13, 2008 at Stanford. Those interested in participating should contact Philip Martin at: plmartin@ucdavis.edu

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World Economic Forum´s India Economic Summit New Delhi, India, 12/4/07

http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20Press%20Releases/India_Next_Google

The National Council for Science and the Environment´s 8th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment- Climate Change Science and Solutions Washington DC, 1/16/08-1/18/08

http://ncseonline.org/2008conference