Opinion ID: 1209204
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Heading: The Wagner-Peyser Act

Text: The Wagner-Peyser Act and its implementing regulations establish a national system of state-run public employment offices. These offices provide employers with a means of recruiting nonlocal workers when the supply of local workers is inadequate. Alfred L. Snapp, Etc. v. Puerto Rico, ex rel. Barez, 458 U.S. 592, 594-95, 102 S.Ct. 3260, 3262, 73 L.Ed.2d 995, 999 (1982). The Wagner-Peyser Act's purpose is to protect migratory workers who meet the needs of employers using federal resources to secure workers. E.g., Gomez v. Florida State Employment Service, 417 F.2d 569, 571-72 (5th Cir.1969). Hawtel does not demonstrate that the DLIR practices challenged here frustrate that purpose. 20 C.F.R. § 652.3(e), which implements the Wagner-Peyser Act, requires states to administer a labor exchange system with the capacity to meet the work test requirements of the state unemployment compensation system. (Emphasis added.) As this regulation's plain language instructs, work test requirements, if any, are defined by state law rather than federal law.