by admin | Dec 16, 2017 | immigration, USCIS
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it is taking steps to implement the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), in accordance with a recent court decision. Although the IER was published during the previous administration with an effective date...
by Girish Anand | Dec 15, 2017 | NLRA, NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has turned back the clock on the Obama-era standard of what constitutes a joint employer and now maintains that joint employers must have “direct and immediate” control over employees, a standard that held for...
by Girish Anand | Dec 13, 2017 | DOL, wage theft
The Department of Labor (DOL) has extended the commentary period on its proposed new tip pooling regulation by 30 days, from Jan. 4 to Feb. 3, 2018. The announcement on Tuesday came after 46 Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives wrote in a letter to Labor...
by Girish Anand | Dec 13, 2017 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
Friday (Dec. 15) is the end of this year’s open enrollment at HealthCare.gov, and the latest tally shows that 4.7 million people have so far signed up for Obamacare health insurance policies. In 2016, a total of 9.2 million enrolled, but that sign-up period...
by Girish Anand | Dec 12, 2017 | NLRA, NLRB
Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will publish a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register, asking for public input regarding the board’s 2014 Election Rule, which modified the board’s representation-election procedures located at 29 CFR...