{"id":1037377,"date":"2026-09-21T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037377"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:31","slug":"if-employers-lay-off-americans-and-choose-h-1b-workers-what-happens-next-trumps-new-order-puts-us-firms-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/if-employers-lay-off-americans-and-choose-h-1b-workers-what-happens-next-trumps-new-order-puts-us-firms-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"If employers lay off Americans and choose H-1B workers what happens next? Trump\u2019s new order puts US firms under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employers sponsoring H-1B workers will face closer scrutiny if they have recently laid off American workers or are planning job cuts that could affect similarly situated US employees under a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The order directs the Departments of Labor, Homeland Security and State to consider an employer&#8217;s recent or planned layoffs when processing H-1B labor condition applications, petitions, visas and requests for entry into the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers sponsoring H-1B workers will face closer scrutiny if they have recently laid off American workers or are planning job cuts that could affect similarly situated US employees under a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump. The order directs the Departments of Labor, Homeland Security and State to consider an employer&#8217;s recent or planned layoffs when processing H-1B labor condition applications, petitions, visas and requests for entry into the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037378,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037377\/revisions\/1037378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}