The Trump administration is implementing temporary change to rules on H-2B guest workers to allow for those non-agricultural workers to be hired for positions in the U.S. food supply chain like meat packing plants as those businesses deal with absenteeism and workers quarantined because of COVID-19 exposure.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a temporary final rule in the Federal Register that is good through May 15, 2023, to allow those in the U.S. food supply chain to hire current H-2B employees whose work contracts or three-year visas are expiring.
The companies also would be able to hire other H-2B workers with expiring visas who otherwise would have to return to their home countries. Employers and workers have until September 11, 2020, to enter into new work contracts.
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