This release adds a page about one question on every PERM application.
The layoff question
Form 9089 asks whether the employer laid off workers in the job's occupation, or a related one, in the area, in the six months before filing. A yes doesn't stop the filing. The employer must show it told the laid-off workers about the job and considered those who could do it. DOL publishes each answer once a case is decided.
What the new page shows
Layoffs reported on PERM applications adds up those answers from DOL's own files:
- How many applications said yes, and which employers' they were.
- Every fiscal year from 2015, as a count and as a share of the year's applications.
- The occupations with the most yeses.
- How the cases that said yes ended, beside the ones that said no.
- Every employer that said yes, searchable, with a download.
Elsewhere
- An employer's page says how many of its newest decided applications reported a layoff, when any did.
- The guide to the PERM layoff rule for employers now shows the question on DOL's own form.
