(a) The Director has determined that there generally are sufficient
United States workers who are able, willing, qualified and available for
the occupations listed below on Schedule B and that the wages and
working conditions of United States workers similarly employed will
generally be adversely affected by the employment in the United States
of aliens in Schedule B occupations. An employer seeking a labor
certification for an occupation listed on Schedule B may petition for a
waiver pursuant to Sec. 656.23.
Schedule B
(1) Assemblers
(2) Attendants, Parking Lot
(3) Attendants (Service Workers such as Personal Service Attendants,
Amusement and Recreation Service Attendants)
(4) Automobile Service Station Attendants
(5) Bartenders
(6) Bookkeepers II
(7) Caretakers
(8) Cashiers
(9) Charworkers and Cleaners
(10) Chauffeurs and Taxicab Drivers
(11) Cleaners, Hotel and Motel
(12) Clerks, General
(13) Clerks, Hotel
(14) Clerks and Checkers, Grocery Stores
(15) Clerk Typists
(16) Cooks, Short Order
(17) Counter and Fountain Workers
(18) Dining Room Attendants
(19) Electric Truck Operators
(20) Elevator Operators
(21) Floorworkers
(22) Groundskeepers
(23) Guards
(24) Helpers, any industry
(25) Hotel Cleaners
(26) Household Domestic Service Workers
(27) Housekeepers
(28) Janitors
(29) Key Punch Operators
(30) Kitchen Workers
(31) Laborers, Common
(32) Laborers, Farm
(33) Laborers, Mine
(34) Loopers and Toppers
(35) Material Handlers
(36) Nurses' Aides and Orderlies
(37) Packers, Markers, Bottlers and Related
(38) Porters
(39) Receptionists
(40) Sailors and Deck Hands
(41) Sales Clerks, General
(42) Sewing Machine Operators and Handstitchers
(43) Stock Room and Warehouse Workers
(44) Streetcar and Bus Conductors
(45) Telephone Operators
(46) Truck Drivers and Tractor Drivers
(47) Typists, Lesser Skilled
(48) Ushers, Recreation and Amusement
(49) Yard Workers
(b) Descriptions of Schedule B occupations--(1) Assemblers perform
one or more repetitive tasks to assemble components and subassemblies
using hand or power tools to mass produce a variety of components,
products or equipment. They perform such activities as riveting,
drilling, filing, bolting, soldering, spot welding, cementing, gluing,
cutting and fitting. They may use clamps or other work aids to hold
parts during assembly, inspect or test components, or tend previously
set-up or automatic machines.
(2) Attendants, Parking Lot park automobiles for customers in
parking lots or garages and may collect fees based on time span of
parking.
(3) Attendants (Service Workers such as Personal Service Attendants,
Amusement and Recreation Service Attendants) perform a variety of
routine tasks attending to the personal needs of customers at such
places as amusement parks, bath houses, clothing check-rooms, and
dressing rooms, including such tasks as taking and issuing tickets,
checking and issuing clothing and supplies, cleaning premises and
equipment, answering inquiries, checking lists, and maintaining simple
records.
(4) Automobile Service Station Attendants service automotive
vehicles with fuel, lubricants, and automotive accessories at drive-in
service facilities; may also compute charges and collect fees from
customers.
(5) Bartenders prepare, mix, and dispense alcoholic beverages for
consumption by bar customers, and compute and collect charges for
drinks.
(6) Bookkeepers II keep records of one facet of an establishment's
financial transactions by maintaining one set of books; specialize in
such areas as accounts-payable, accounts-receivable, or interest accrued
rather than a complete set of records.
(7) Caretakers perform a combination of duties to keep a private
home clean and in good condition such as cleaning and dusting furniture
and furnishings, hallways and lavatories; beating, vacuuming, and
scrubbing rugs; washing windows, waxing and polishing floors; removing
and hanging draperies; cleaning and oiling furnances and other
equipment; repairing mechanical and electrical appliances; and painting.
(8) Cashiers receive payments made by customers for goods or
services, make change, give receipts, operate cash registers, balance
cash accounts, prepare bank deposits and perform other related duties.
(9) Charworkers and Cleaners keep the premises of commercial
establishments, office buildings, or apartment hosues in clean and
orderly condition by performing, according to a set routine, such tasks
as mopping and sweeping floors, dusting and polishing furniture and
fixtures, and vacuuming rugs.
(10) Chauffeurs and Taxicab Drivers drive automobiles to convey
passengers according to the passengers' instructions.
(11) Cleaners, Hotel and Motel clean hotel rooms and halls, sweep
and mop floors, dust furniture, empty wastebaskets, and make beds.
(12) Clerks, General perform a variety of routine clerical tasks not
requiring knowledge of systems or procedures such as copying and posting
data, proofreading records or forms, counting, weighing, or measuring
material,
routing correspondence, answering telephones, conveying messages, and
running errands.
(13) Clerks, Hotel perform a variety of routine tasks to serve hotel
guests such as registering guests, dispensing keys, distributing mail,
collecting payments, and adjusting complaints.
(14) Clerks and Checkers, Grocery Stores itemize, total, and receive
payments for purchases in grocery stores, usually using cash registers;
often assist customers in locating items, stock shelves, and keep stock-
control and sales-transaction records.
(15) Clerk Typists perform general clerical work which, for the
majority of duties, requires the use of typewriters: perform such
activities as typing reports, bills, application forms, shipping
tickets, and other matters from clerical records, filing records and
reports, posting information to records, sorting and distributing mail,
answering phones and similar duties.
(16) Cooks--Short Order prepare and cook to order all kinds of
short-preparation-time foods; may perform such activities as carving
meats, filling orders from a steamtable, preparing sandwiches, salads
and beverages, and serving meals over a counter.
(17) Counter and Fountain Workers serve food to patrons at lunchroom
counters, cafeterias, soda fountains, or similar public eating places;
take orders from customers and frequently prepare simple items, such as
desert dishes; itemize and total checks; receive payment and make
change; clean work areas and equipment.
(18) Dining Room Attendants facilitate food service in eating places
by performing such tasks as removing dirty dishes, replenishing linen
and silver supplies, serving water and butter to patrons, and cleaning
and polishing equipment.
(19) Electric Truck Operators drive gasoline- or electric-powered
industrial trucks or tractors equipped with forklift, elevating
platform, or trailer hitch to move and stack equipment and materials in
a warehouse, storage yard, or factory.
(20) Elevator Operators operate elevators to transport passengers
and freight between building floors.
(21) Floorworkers perform a variety of routine tasks in support of
other workers in and around such work sites as factory floors and
service areas, frequently at the beck and call of others; perform such
tasks as cleaning floors, materials and equipment, distributing
materials and tools to workers, running errands, delivering messages,
emptying containers, and removing materials from work areas to storage
or shipping areas.
(22) Groundskeepers maintain grounds of industrial, commercial, or
public property in good condition by performing such tasks as cutting
lawns, trimming hedges, pruning trees, repairing fences, planting
flowers, and shoveling snow.
(23) Guards guard and patrol premises of industrial or business
establishments or similar types of property to prevent theft and other
crimes and prevent possible injury to others.
(24) Helpers (any industry) perform a variety of duties to assist
other workers who are usually of a higher level of competency of
expertness by furnishing such workers with materials, tools, and
supplies, cleaning work areas, machines and equipment, feeding or
offbearing machines, and/or holding materials or tools.
(25) Hotel Cleaners perform routine tasks to keep hotel premises
neat and clean such as cleaning rugs, washing walls, ceilings and
windows, moving furniture, mopping and waxing floors, and polishing
metalwork.
(26) Household Domestic Service Workers perform a variety of tasks
in private households, such as cleaning, dusting, washing, ironing,
making beds, maintaining clothes, marketing, cooking, serving food, and
caring for children or disabled persons. This definition, however,
applies only to workers who have had less than one year of documented
full-time paid experience in the tasks to be performed, working on a
live-in or live-out basis in private households or in public or private
institutions or establishments where the worker has performed tasks
equivalent to tasks normally associated with the maintenance of a
private household. This definition does not include household workers
who primarily provide health or instructional services.
(27) Housekeepers supervise workers engaged in maintaining interiors
of commercial residential buildings in a clean and orderly fashion,
assign duties to cleaners (hotel and motel), charworkers, and hotel
cleaners, inspect finished work, and maintain supplies of equipment and
materials.
(28) Janitors keep hotels, office buildings, apartment houses, or
similar buildings in clean and orderly condition, and tend furnaces and
boilers to provide heat and hot water; perform such tasks as sweeping
and mopping floors, emptying trash containers, and doing minor painting
and plumbing repairs; often maintain their residence at their places of
work.
(29) Keypunch Operators, using machines similar in action to
typewriters, punch holes in cards in such a position that each hole can
be identified as representing a specific item of information. These
punched cards may be used with electronic computers or tabulating
machines.
(30) Kitchen Workers perform routine tasks in the kitchens of
restaurants. Their primary responsibility is to maintain work areas and
equipment in a clean and orderly fashion by performing such tasks as
mopping floors, removing trash, washing pots and pans, transferring
supplies and equipment, and washing and peeling vegetables.
(31) Laborers, Common perform routine tasks, upon instructions and
according to set routine, in an industrial, construction or
manufacturing environment such as loading and moving equipment and
supplies, cleaning work areas, and distributing tools.
(32) Laborers, Farm plant, cultivate, and harvest farm products,
following the instructions of supervisors, often working as members of a
team. Their typical tasks are watering and feeding livestock, picking
fruit and vegetables, and cleaning storage areas and equipment.
(33) Laborers, Mine perform routine tasks in underground or surface
mines, pits, or quarries, or at tipples, mills, or preparation plants
such as cleaning work areas, shoveling coal onto conveyors, pushing mine
cars from working faces to haulage roads, and loading or sorting
material onto wheelbarrows.
(34) Loopers and Toppers (i) tend machines that shear nap, loose
threads, and knots from cloth surfaces to give uniform finish and
texture, (ii) operate looping machines to close openings in the toes of
seamless hose or join knitted garment parts, (iii) loop stitches or
ribbed garment parts on the points of transfer bars to facilitate the
transfer of garment parts to the needles of knitting machines.
(35) Material Handlers load, unload, and convey materials within or
near plants, yards, or worksites under specific instructions.
(36) Nurses' Aides and Orderlies assist in the care of hospital
patients by performing such activities as bathing, dressing and
undressing patients and giving alcohol rubs, serving and collecting food
trays, cleaning and shaving hair from the skin areas of operative cases,
lifting patients onto and from beds, transporting patients to treatment
units, changing bed linens, running errands, and directing visitors.
(37) Packers, Markers, Bottlers, and Related pack products into
containers, such as cartons or crates, mark identifying information on
articles, insure that filled bottles are properly sealed and marked,
often working in teams on or at end of assembly lines.
(38) Porters (i) carry baggage by hand or handtruck for airline,
railroad or bus passengers, and perform related personal services in and
around public transportation environments.
(ii) Keep building premises, working areas in production departments
of industrial organizations, or similar sites in clean and orderly
condition.
(39) Receptionists receive clients or customers coming into
establishments, ascertain their wants, and direct them accordingly;
perform such activities as arranging appointments, directing callers to
their destinations, recording names, times, nature of business and
persons seen and answering phones.
(40) Sailors and Deck Hands stand deck watches and perform a variety
of tasks to preserve painted surfaces of ships and to maintain lines,
running gear, and cargo handling gear in safe operating condition;
perform such tasks as mopping decks, chipping rust, painting chipped
areas, and splicing rope.
(41) Sales Clerks, General receive payment for merchandise in retail
establishments, wrap or bag merchandise, and keep shelves stocked.
(42) Sewing Machine Operators and Hand-Stitchers (i) operate single-
or multiple-needle sewing machines to join parts in the manufacture of
such products as awnings, carpets, and gloves; specialize in one type of
sewing machine limited to joining operations.
(ii) Join and reinforce parts of articles such as garments and
curtains, sew button-holes and attach fasteners to such articles, or sew
decorative trimmings on such articles, using needles and threads.
(43) Stock Room and Warehouse Workers receive, store, ship, and
distribute materials, tools, equipment, and products within
establishments as directed by others.
(44) Streetcar and Bus Conductors collect fares or tickets from
passengers, issue transfers, open and close doors, announce stops,
answer questions, and signal operators to start or stop.
(45) Telephone Operators operate telephone switchboards to relay
incoming and internal calls to phones in an establishment, and make
connections with external lines for outgoing calls; often take messages,
supply information and keep records of calls and charges; often are
involved primarily in establishing, or aiding telephone users in
establishing, local or long distance telephone connections.
(46) Truck Drivers and Tractor Drivers (i) drive trucks to transport
materials, merchandise, equipment or people to and from specified
destinations, such as plants, railroad stations, and offices.
(ii) Drive tractors to move materials, draw implements, pull out
objects imbedded in the ground, or pull cables of winches to raise,
lower, or load heavy materials or equipment.
(47) Typists, Lesser Skilled type straight-copy material, such as
letters, reports, stencils, and addresses, from drafts or corrected
copies. They are not required to prepare materials involving the
understanding of complicated technical terminology, the arrangement and
setting of complex tabular detail or similar items. Their typing speed
in English does not exceed 52 words per minute on a manual typewriter
and/or 60 words per minute on an electric typewriter and their error
rate is 12 or more errors per 5 minute typing period on representative
business correspondence.
(48) ``Ushers (Recreation and Amusement)'' assist patrons at
entertainment events to find seats, search for lost articles, and locate
facilities.
(49) Yard Workers maintain the grounds of private residences in good
order by performing such tasks as mowing and watering lawns, planting
flowers and shrubs, and repairing and painting fences. They work on the
instructions of private employers.
(c) Requests for waivers from Schedule B. Any employer who desires a
labor certification involving a Schedule B occupation may request such a
waiver by submitting a written request along with the Application for
Alien Employment Certification form at the appropriate local employment
service office pursuant to Sec. 656.23.
(d) The Administrator may revise Schedule B from time to time on the
Administrator's own initiative, upon the request of a Regional
Administrator, Employment and Training Administration, or upon the
written request of any other person which sets forth reasonable grounds
therefor. Such requests should be mailed to the Administrator, United
States Employment Service, room 8000, Patrick Henry Building, 601 D
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20213.
[45 FR 83933, Dec. 19, 1980, as amended at 56 FR 54927, Oct. 23, 1991]
