Temporary Worker - Law Dictionary Search Results
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temporary worker A foreign worker who will work in the United States for a limited period of time. Some visas classes for temporary workers are H, L, O, P, Q and R. If you are seeking to come to the U.S. for employment as a temporary worker in the U.S. (H, L, O, P, and Q visas), your prospective employer must file a petition with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS. This petition must be approved by USCIS before you can apply for a visa. Select temporary workers to visit the USCIS website and learn more. Select temporary worker visas to go to the Department of State website to learn more, and review information about NAFTA workers (TN visa) and treaty traders/investors (E visas). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
nonimmigrant
nonimmigrant An alien who seeks temporary entry to the United States for a specific purpose. The alien must have a permanent residence abroad (for most classes of admission) and qualify for the nonimmigrant classification sought. The nonimmigrant classifications include: foreign government officials, visitors for business and for pleasure, aliens in transit through the United States, treaty traders and investors, students, international representatives, temporary workers and trainees, representatives of foreign information media, exchange visitors, fiance(e)s of U.S. citizens, intracompany transferees, NATO officials, religious workers, and some others. Most nonimmigrants can be accompanied or joined by spouses and unmarried minor (or dependent) children. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
industrial trainee
industrial trainee See Temporary Worker. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
nonimmigrant visa (niv)
nonimmigrant visa (niv) A U.S. visa allows the bearer, a foreign citizen, to apply to enter the United States temporarily for a specific purpose. Examples of persons who may receive nonimmigrant visas are tourists, student, diplomats and temporary workers. For more information, see Visa. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
out of status
out of status A U.S. visa allows the bearer to apply for entry to the U.S. in a certain classification, for a specific purpose. For example, student (F), visitor (B), temporary worker (H). Every visa is issued for a particular purpose and for a specific class of visitor. Each visa classification has a set of requirements that the visa holder must follow and maintain. When you arrive in the U.S., a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspector determines whether you will be admitted, length of stay and conditions of stay in, the U.S. When admitted you are given a Form I-94 (Arrival/Departure Record), which tells you when you must leave the U.S. The date granted on the I-94 card at the airport governs how long you may stay in the U.S. If you do not follow the requirements, you stay longer than that date, or you engage in activities not permitted for your particular type of visa, you violate your status and are considered be "out of status". It is...
job action
job action : a temporary action (as a slowing of work) by workers on the job that is meant as a protest to force compliance with demands compare strike ...
Trade Union
Trade Union. The Acts 30 & 31 Vict. cc. 8, 74, provided for facilitating the proceedings of a commission appointed by Queen Victoria to inquire into and report on the organization and rules of trade unions, and other associations of employers and workmen. The (English) Trade Union Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31), provides:-S. 2. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.'S. 3. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be unlawful so as to render void or voidable any agreement or trust.'S. 4. 'Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for breach of any of the following agreements, namely,(1) Any agreement between members of a trade union as su...
Lock out
Lock out, in the case of a lock-out, the industry as such is not closed down even temporarily; only particular workers re refused work. Closing down a business even temporarilyis distinct and different from a lock-out, Indian Metal and Metallurgical Corporation v. Industrial Tribunal, AIR 1953 Mad 98.The word 'lock-out', as stated in the Presidency Jute Co's case [(1952) Lab AC 62], in its dictionary sense means refusal on the part of an employer to furnish to his operatives except on conditions to be accepted by the latter collectively, Feroz Din v. State of West Bengal AIR 1960 SC 363 (367): (1960) 2 SCR 319. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947)]It means the temporary closing of a place of employment, or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ and number of persons employed by him. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2 (l)...
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