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BALCA Trends: Back to the Future

By Joel Stewart

When the PERM Rule became effective in March 2005, the rules for labor certification changed drastically. The idea of the makeover was to create an electronic process (hence, Process Electronic Review Management called PERM) that would enable DOL to issue decisions electronically in record time. Indeed, the first few cases were subjected to a computer check to see if all the boxes were filled in, and some cases were decided in one day. DOL also announced in the rule itself that there would be Zero tolerance for errors, including typographical mistakes, and that the doctrine of harmless error, which was...

Full post as published by Joel Stewart's Blog on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).