Labor & Employment Law Update

A few months ago, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released a new “Jurisdictional Thresholds” infographic that is “intended to help employers, employees, and other interested parties easily determine when OFCCP’s Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 503), and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment […]

In Notice 2016-4 (the “Notice”) issued by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) on December 28, 2015, the IRS extended due dates for the 2015 information reporting forms required to be filed and furnished under the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”). Pursuant to the Notice: The due date for furnishing the […]

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 […]