Information from DOL Regarding Electronic Submission of Prevailing Wage Requests

A message from the DOL regarding electronic submission of prevailing wage requests:

Good morning:

As you may have seen, the iCERT System will be unavailable starting on Wednesday, January 20th at approximately 6:00 AM EST and will not be available until Thursday January 21st at 6:00 AM EST. Scheduled system maintenance and upgrades will be performed during this time. We will be adding new features in order to better serve your needs.

Key features in the new release include:

• The ability for users to file ETA Form 9141 electronically to request a Prevailing Wage determination from the National Processing Center. Users will be able to perform similar actions to submit and manage their 9141 applications as they currently are able to do for their LCA Form 9035 applications:
• Start a new prevailing wage application and submit online electronically
• Save a prevailing wage application in progress and return at a later time to finish data entry
• Withdraw a submitted prevailing wage application
• Reuse the information on a current prevailing wage application to create a new application
• Delete un-submitted (initiated) prevailing wage applications
• Request a Redetermination Review for applications that have been given determinations
• The ability for users to further manage their accounts and sub-accounts and grant or withdraw permission to access the Prevailing Wage feature
• Readily available Printable Forms and their Instructions from within the prevailing wage application
• A new Case Summary screen (upon logging into iCERT) that will allow users to easily see the status of their last 10 applications submitted and quickly see the last 10 applications that had a decision enacted

Employers or their authorized representatives who intend to use the iCert System to electronically submit prevailing wage applications will be required to register on the iCert system and create accounts prior to electronically submitting their applications. Employers (or their authorized representatives) who are already registered to use the iCERT System may continue using their existing accounts but will be required to activate the Prevailing Wage feature. This can only be activated on or after January 21, 2010. Please review the Prevailing Wage Quick Start Guide to set up your account properly to submit Form 9141 applications.

At this time, those employers who are using the iCERT System but wish to use a private wage source (i.e. a source other than OES or SCA/DBA) or a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) wage rate must continue to submit supporting documentation (for the wage source they wish to use) in hard copy by U.S. mail or other physical delivery service. The employer may either mail in the application with supporting documents in hard copy or file the application electronically and submit the supporting documents by mail after an electronic case number is issued. The hard copies of documents filed in support of electronically submitted applications must include the electronic case number associated with that prevailing wage application.

Please contact the OFLC help desk at oflc.portal@dol.gov for further information on the outage. For specific questions on your application, application status, or other questions that do not pertain to the outage, please contact the OFLC National Processing Center at lca.chicago@dol.gov for H-1B assistance or the OFLC National Prevailing Wage and Helpdesk Center at flc.pwd@dol.gov for Prevailing Wage assistance.

For more information about the process of filing the Prevailing Wage Determination requests with the NPWHC, employers may wish to refer to the recently posted Prevailing Wage Frequently Asked Questions (December 2009), and the Prevailing Wage Determination Policy Guidance for Nonagricultural Immigration Programs (Revised November 2009).

Thank you for your understanding in this regard as we improve our programs to better serve your needs.