Labor & Employment Law Update

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collection will open on April 30, 2024. The deadline for submitting the EEO-1 is June 4, 2024.  As a quick refresher, the EEO-1 survey must be filed annually by private employers with 100 or more employees, and by federal […]

On April 16, 2024, the IRS published Notice 2024-35, which provided welcome relief (again) from required minimum distribution (“RMD”) compliance for post-death distributions under the 10-year rule for 2024.  Required minimum distributions are amounts retirement plan participants (and individual retirement account (IRA) owners) must withdraw once they (a) retire, or […]

On April 15, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued a final rule to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”) which will be published on April 19, 2024, and become effective on June 18, 2024. Recall that the PWFA was signed into law in 2023 and requires a […]

The 2024 H-1B cap season opened at noon ET on March 6, 2024 and ends at noon ET on March 22, 2024. It is only during this period of time, that employers may submit registrations for the H-1B lottery on behalf of current or prospective employees who have not previously been […]

After a long wait, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published its final rule regarding proper independent contractor classification on January 10, 2024. The DOL initially issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for this rule back in October 2022. This rule will take effect on March 11, 2024. The new […]