Abby HartNov 10, 2023
How companies, manufacturers and industry pros are tackling landscaping's labor shortage.
Seth JonesNov 7, 2023
Seth Jones shares thoughts on the labor shortage and how to get the work done anyway.
LM StaffAug 16, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor will publish a joint rule making an additional 30,000 H-2B visas available.
Abby HartNov 3, 2023
Spring into action: How two companies handle their spring cleanups and prepare for a busy season ahead
Seth JonesNov 3, 2023
Mike Caprio Regional business consultant Lawn Doctor, Holmdel, N.J. 1. What all does your job entail, and do you enjoy it? I provide business, agronomy,…
Gregg RobertsonNov 3, 2023
For those of you who have seen the Bill Murray classic movie, “Groundhog Day,” the H-2B saga seems reminiscent. As part of the deal to…
Andrew BrayNov 10, 2023
On Jan. 25, Congress and the president reached an agreement to reopen the government for 21 days.
Rolling the H-2B stone up the Hill again After a 35-day partial government shutdown, Congress passed a temporary three-week spending bill without — you guessed…
The Department of Labor (DOL)’s online portal for H-2B seasonal work visa applications is now fully operational. The online portal, called iCERT, crashed in the…
A tentative agreement to double the number of H-2B visas and implement other reforms to the guest worker program did not move forward in December,…
Last Friday, Dec. 7, funding for several federal agencies was due to run out unless Congress passed a set of appropriations bills, which we hoped…
In September, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a nationwide initiative to strengthen compliance in the landscape industry with the labor provisions of the…
With the Nov. 6 midterm elections just days away, what can we expect come Jan. 1 in the new Congress? The consensus of the pollsters…
The H-2B returning-worker provision and some modest H-2B reforms did not make it into the fiscal year 2019 federal appropriations bills, as business advocates had…
LM StaffSep 13, 2018
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is conducting a nationwide initiative to strengthen compliance with the labor provisions of the…
This summer, the landscape contracting industry has faced what may be the tightest labor market in its history. With the economy running at full tilt,…
Marisa PalmieriNov 3, 2023
I can vividly recall sitting next to Bob Dolibois, retired executive vice president of the American Nursery & Landscape Association (now AmericanHort), on a bus…
For a moment in mid-June it seemed like the stars might be aligning for getting the returning-worker exemption reinstated in the H-2B visa program.…
LM StaffJun 27, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement agreement with Triple H Services, a landscaping company based in Newland, N.C., that conducts business in…
LM StaffNov 10, 2023
The U.S. House of Representatives may vote on June 27 on a compromise immigration bill that includes a permanent returning-worker exemption and mandates that employers…
Taking advantage of the “must-pass” omnibus federal spending bill for fiscal year 2018-2019, advocates for the H-2B guest-worker visa program managed to get an…
Last week, many landscape companies were informed by the Department of Labor that they would not receive the H-2B seasonal guest workers they applied for,…
On Dec. 21, not three months after the start of the federal fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had reached…
Sarah WebbJan 17, 2018
Parkside Landscaping, located in Littleton, Colo., paid more than $500,000 in back wages and penalties after it faced allegations of underpaying foreign workers it hired…
