by Girish Anand | May 14, 2018 | DOJ, USCIS
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that expands their collaboration to better detect and eliminate fraud, abuse, and discrimination by employers bringing foreign visa...
by Girish Anand | Apr 6, 2018 | DOJ, Health Care Reform, HHS
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Attorney General Jeff Sessions today released a fiscal year (FY) 2017 Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program report showing that for every dollar the federal government spent on healthcare related fraud and abuse...
by Girish Anand | Mar 6, 2018 | DOJ
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a second initiative to combat sexual harassment — the Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Initiative (SHWI) focuses on workplace sexual harassment in the public sector. The...
by Girish Anand | Jan 5, 2018 | DOJ
The Department of Labor (DOL) has increased its employment law penalties by 2 percent, in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. That law allows agencies to adjust penalties according to inflation by Jan. 15 of...
by Girish Anand | Dec 30, 2017 | ADA, DOJ
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that, pursuant to Executive Order 13777 and his November memorandum prohibiting certain guidance documents, he is rescinding 25 such Department of Justice (DOJ) documents that were deemed unnecessary, inconsistent with...
by Girish Anand | Oct 2, 2017 | DOJ
Citing the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Crop Production Services Inc. of Colorado for not hiring American workers but instead taking on foreign H2-A visa workers. It is the first prosecution since President...
