Since President Donald Trump took office in January, his administration has moved to crack down on a large migrant labor force that helps employers in industries like agriculture, service, and healthcare operate.

The administration has put certain green card applications on hold to vet them for issues such as fraud or national security concerns, and revoked visas that had allowed workers from countries including Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to temporarily work and live in the US. It’s also eyeing changes to the H-1B visa program, which grants around 85,000 visas to highly skilled workers from other countries each year, and is tightening interview requirements for certain visa applicants.

Even as the White House seeks to curb legal pathways for migrants to work in the US, employers are more willing to provide immigration-related benefits to their workers than they were five years ago, recent data from Indeed suggests.

For more on the surge in sponsorship support, keep reading here.—CV

An organization’s success can likely be measured by whether or not the CHRO is a strategic business partner to the CEO.

That’s according to Jenny Dearborn, chief people strategy officer at the Stockholm-based global consulting firm BTS and co-author of The Insight-Driven Leader: How High-Performing Companies are Using Analytics to Unlock Business Value.

In her new book, which she wrote with talent development leader Kelly Rider, Dearborn highlights how companies can use talent analytics to navigate the future of work and why the partnership between a CHRO and CEO is crucial to business success.

For more from our conversation with Dearborn, keep reading here.—MC

Employment numbers in the tech sector effectively stagnated in July, as the industry remained stable amid a tumultuous job market—but a decline in postings could herald trouble ahead.

That’s according to CompTIA’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, which found the tech unemployment rate in July, 2.9%, virtually unchanged from June’s 2.8%. But those numbers belie a more complicated picture, as the tech sector reduced staffing by a net 10,314 jobs.

Still, as CompTIA Chief Research Officer Tim Herbert said in a press release, the overall strength of the tech labor market shows promise for employers and employees alike.

For more on the latest tech employment data, keep reading on IT Brew.—EH