Labor & Employment Law Update

For many years we’ve been cautioning employers about unprecedented National Labor Relations Board scrutiny, and intrusion, into what used to be universally accepted employment policies. For example, in the good ole days, employers quite rightly believed that prohibiting “loud, abusive, or foul language” made perfect sense. The NLRB recently disagreed, […]

E-Verify just released a re-designed participation poster that consolidates prior English and Spanish posters into one poster. As stated in the E-Verify User Manual, employers must replace their participation posters when updates are provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The new posters can be downloaded when you log into […]

On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program established by Executive Order during the Obama Administration that provided deportation relief and work authorization to certain undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.  The rescission will […]

On August 29, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) halted the new EEO-1 pay disclosure requirements required by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), pending OMB review. The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) gives the OMB’s Director the right to determine whether collections of information (like the EEO-1) meet […]

Yes, you heard correctly!  Just when employers were getting used to the January 2017 version, the USCIS released another revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.  For now, employers may use this revised version or continue using Form I-9 with a revision date of November 14, 2016 through September […]