The New Labor Certification Regulations in Immigration Law—The PERM Program (2005)

The Department of Labor’s final “PERM” Regulations, totally overhauling the labor certification process for the permanent employment of foreign nationals in the U.S., are finally here, effective March 28, 2005. According to many experts, even though an improvement over the previous system, these new regulations dramatically change the entire labor certification process, making it more complex and expensive for U.S. employers to fill job vacancies with foreign nationals.

The Committee on Immigration and Nationality of the International Law and Practice Section and the Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the New York State Bar Association are pleased to present a very timely full-day program, with a faculty of national experts in the field, which reviews these new regulations, discusses how they change the labor certification process and how immigration, employment and corporate lawyers will now have to advise their clients.

The speakers analyze the real life issues and questions in the labor certification area, and suggest possible approaches for your own practices, that arise with these new PERM regulations, such as:

* What do you do with a pending labor certification? Can you, or should you,
   convert a current case to one under PERM? Is there a transition period?

* How long will it take to process a PERM petition?

* What are the required specific “recruitment” steps, and their time frame, an
   employer must take to apprise U.S. workers of a given job opportunity before filing
   a PERM petition?

* What documentation must an employer maintain and how extensive must the recruitment report be to meet Department of Labor requirements?

* What has changed in determining the “prevailing wage” for a position, and does the employer have any latitude to vary this prevailing wage under PERM?

* How will guidelines change for determining minimum education, training and experience necessary for certain job positions offered under PERM?

This course has been designed to allow you to gain a working familiarity with these fundamentally new regulations.

Program Contents

· Brief Overview of New PERM Regulations

· New Pre-Filing Requirements

· Filing the Application

· Recruitment Requirements

· Substantive Issues

· Strategic Issues

· A Last Look at Form ETA 9089

Program Speakers

Jan H. Brown, Esq.

Jan H. Brown, P.C.

—New York City

Margaret A. Catillaz, Esq. (Co-Chair)

Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

—Rochester

Steven A. Clark, Esq.

Flynn & Clark, P.C.

—Cambridge, MA

Neil S. Dornbaum, Esq.

Dornbaum & Peregoy

—Newark, NJ

Gary E. Endelman, Esq.

Immigration Counsel, BP America, Inc.

—Houston, TX

Josie Gonzalez, Esq.

Gonzalez & Harris, P.C.

—Pasadena, CA

Howard W. Gordon, Esq.

Fragomen, DelRey, Bernsen & Lowey, LLP

—New York City

David Grunblatt, Esq. (Co-Chair)

Wildes,Weinberg, Grunblatt & Wildes, P.C.

—New York City

Allen E. Kaye, Esq. (Co-Chair)

Law Offices of Allen E. Kaye, P.C.

—New York City

H. Ronald Klasko, Esq.

Klasko, Rulon, Stock & Seltzer, LLP

—Philadelphia, PA

Deborah J. Notkin, Esq.

Barst & Mukamal LLP

—New York City

Eleanor Pelta, Esq.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

—Washington, DC

Sharryn E. Ross, Esq.

Ross, Silverman & Levy LLP

—Boston, MA

Richard D. Steel, Esq.

Steel, Rudnick & Ruben, P.C.

—Philadelphia, PA

Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Esq.

Of Counsel, True, Walsh & Miller, LLP

—Ithaca

Total MCLE Credits                        8.5

Ethics MCLE Credits                       0.0

* Each additional person who uses the tapes for MCLE credit must purchase a copy of the “MCLE coursebook.”

Product Type	Member Price	Non Member Price
The New Labor Certification Regulations in Immigration Law—The PERM Program (2005) (This product cannot be used to receive MCLE credit) (CLE CourseBooks) 16224	$40.00	$60.00
+ The New Labor Certification Regulations in Immigration Law—The PERM Program (2005) (MCLE credit only if you have access to the course's audio/video/CD recording. You cannot receive MCLE credit from a coursebook alone.) (CLE CourseBooks) 16224M	$100.00	$175.00
* The New Labor Certification Regulations in Immigration Law—The PERM Program (2005) (MCLE Audio on CD) D6224	$195.00	$280.00