Who can forget the Cohen & Grigsby How To NOT Hire an American video series ? Well, one year later, the DOL has announced:
it has begun placing pending permanent labor certification applications filed by the Cohen & Grigsby law firm into department-supervised recruitment. Supervised recruitment requires the employer to receive advance approval from the department for all recruitment efforts to ensure that U.S. workers are fully considered for available positions.
The department may institute supervised recruitment when, among other reasons, it has concerns that an employer, attorney or agent may not have complied with department regulations or properly recruited or considered U.S. workers for available positions.
….Last year, the department began auditing applications filed by Cohen & Grigsby as a result of information indicating the firm may have improperly advised its clients regarding the recruitment of U.S. workers. Because of concerns identified in the audits, the department is requiring supervised recruitment for certain applications filed by Cohen & Grigsby
One must ask themselves what is an immigration law firm doing in the High Tech employment recruitment business for their clients in the first place? Well, there is a new investigation against Fragomen, the law firm Cisco uses, involving writing bogus job ads, routed to the…
