Labor & Employment Law Update

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. Cap-subject H-1B visas become available each year on October 1 — and filings with […]

Effective January 1, 2016, the E-Verify Program will begin deleting transaction records that are more than 10 years old from the system. Employers will no longer have access through the system to any cases created prior to December 31, 2005. Similar to recent initiatives at the US Department of Labor, […]

For several years we’ve cautioned employers on the changing legal standards being adopted and enforced by the current National Labor Relations Board. To name just a few of the significant new standards, employers are now confronting quickie elections, less flexibility to control access to email for organizing purposes, and much […]

As immigration reform stalls out in Congress, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) through its enforcement division, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), will continue to direct its enforcement efforts at employers. Moreover, ICE progressively teams up with other agencies, such as the Department of Labor (“DOL”), Social Security Administration (“SSA”) […]

In response to the executive action on immigration announced in November 2014, the U.S. Department of State (“DOS”) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) adopted new procedures for filing Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status. Current procedures Under the existing procedures, the DOS publishes […]