{"id":999632,"date":"2026-03-27T08:36:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999632"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:07:30","slug":"big-h-1b-wage-hike-soon-entry-level-foreign-workers-may-face-tougher-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/big-h-1b-wage-hike-soon-entry-level-foreign-workers-may-face-tougher-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Big H-1B Wage Hike Soon? Entry-Level foreign workers may face tougher road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor has proposed a major change that could push up salaries for foreign workers in the country. The proposal focuses on increasing the \u201cprevailing wage\u201d, the minimum salary employers must offer for workers under H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and PERM visa programs. <\/p>\n<p>The notice, titled \u201cImproving Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Foreign Nationals in the United States,\u201d is set to be published tomorrow. Once it is out, the public will have 60 days to send in comments.  The Department of Labor will review feedback before deciding on a final rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor has proposed a major change that could push up salaries for foreign workers in the country. The proposal focuses on increasing the \u201cprevailing wage\u201d, the minimum salary employers must offer for workers under H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, and PERM visa programs. The notice, titled \u201cImproving Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Foreign Nationals in the United States,\u201d is set to be published tomorrow. Once it is out, the public will have 60 days to send in comments. The Department of Labor will review feedback before deciding on a final rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999632","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}