Labor & Employment Law Update

On December 20, 2017, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), issued a Final Rule that requires federal contractors to follow new privacy training procedures with regard to handling and protecting “personally identifiable information” or “PII.”  PII refers to any […]

There are lots of Federal Contractor odds and ends to discuss since President Trump’s inauguration.  Let’s get caught up! Trump Signs Executive Order to Roll Back Regulations In late January 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order to eliminate two federal regulations for every one regulation enacted.  Given the numerous […]

For H-1B nonimmigrant visas subject to the cap, April 1, 2016, is the first day on which the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) will accept H-1B cap-subject petitions for foreign national professionals in specialty occupations. As April 1, 2017 is a Saturday, the first day of filing will be […]

In November 2016, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service at long last published the revised version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. While employers were allowed to continue using the current Form I-9 (revision date of 03/08/2013) through January 21, 2017, on January 22, 2017, all employers must use […]

On November 22, 2016, a federal judge blocked the new federal overtime rule that would have made more workers eligible for overtime pay beginning December 1, 2016. U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III of the Eastern District of Texas (an Obama judicial appointee) entered a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking […]