The Department of Labor's Employment
and Training Administration needs prevailing wage rates in order to
determine the appropriate rate agricultural employers should pay
foreign and domestic farmworkers. The State Workforce Agencies are
charged with collecting the data from agricultural employers. The
wage rates cover agricultural (crop and livestock) and logging
jobs. Domestic migrant and local seasonal as well as foreign H-2A
farmworkers are hired for these jobs.
The slight increase in
responses is due to a calculation omission from the previous
submission in ROCIS, when the 50 State Workforce Areas' monthly
submissions were not added to the number of total respondents,
despite the fact that the data were identical in the previously
submitted Supporting Statement. A non-substantive change NOT
affecting burden in ETA-232 divides data field #4 into two parts:
unit rate and hourly rate. This makes it easier for the Department
to decipher the data once received. The SWAs have always used #4 to
write in both types of data, but it created more work for Federal
staff who had to manually rewrite the information in order to
separate it. Now the SWA will simply put one type of data in one
section and the other type in the other section. This creates no
increase in burden on the SWAs but marginally reduces the work for
Federal staff.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.