by Girish Anand | Sep 15, 2010 | Federal Labor Law
The Department of Justice (DOJ) today (Sept. 16, 2010) published Final Regulations in the Federal Register for Titles II and III of 1990’s Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), but the regs do not incorporate any directives or interpretations stemming from the...
by Girish Anand | Sep 9, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, USCIS
The nation’s restaurant industry, which reportedly employs illegal immigrants for at least 20 percent of its back-of-the-house workforce, is suddenly coming under the purview of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdowns, according to the New York...
by Girish Anand | Sep 2, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, USCIS
Beginning this week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is expanding the photo matching portion of its E-Verify program to include U.S. passports and driver’s license data. This change will be effective at the start of September...
by Girish Anand | Sep 1, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, OSHA, State Labor Law
Safety easily outranks wage-and-hour and other workplace issues among today’s workers, according to a just-released study by National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. More than eight of ten workers—85 percent—rank...