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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) NPRM

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Beltway Buzz - September 2024

The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

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Wireless Roundup (September 2024)

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FCC Seeks Comment on Promoting the Integrity and Security of Telecommunications Certification Bodies, Measurement Facilities, and the Equipment Authorization Program: In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the Federal...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Mandatory Cybersecurity Incident Reporting: The Dawn of a New Era for Businesses

A significant shift in cybersecurity compliance is on the horizon, and businesses need to prepare. Starting in 2024, organizations will face new requirements to report cybersecurity incidents and ransomware payments to the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

New CISA Rule Would Require Widespread Cyber Incident Reporting, Updated Timelines and Penalties for Critical Infrastructure...

Most businesses in the United States will have to file incident reports—including for ransomware payments—under the Proposed Rule. The Department of Homeland Security has the authority to issue subpoenas and even penalties...more

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CIRCIA: Cyber Incident Reporting for Practically Everyone?

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A sweeping array of businesses are another step closer to requirements to report cybersecurity incidents and ransomware payments to the federal government. On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS)...more

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Proposed Rule Issued to Implement Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act

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On March 27, 2024, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the US Department of Homeland Security released a much-anticipated notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to implement the Cyber Incident...more

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CISA’s Proposed Cyber Incident Reporting Requirements Would Hit a Range of Industries and Sectors

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is publishing a proposed rule (Proposal or NPRM) that will require broad segments of industry to meet onerous and quick...more

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DHS Issues Proposed Rule to Modernize the H-1B Specialty Occupation Worker Program

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On October 23, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which the agency indicates will modernize and improve the H-1B specialty occupation worker program.  DHS states...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

DHS Proposes to Amend H-1B Program

On October 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its H-1B regulations. The proposal also includes provisions that would change the H-1B cap...more

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DHS Proposes Rule to Modernize H-1B Program

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The Department of Homeland Security has published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM or the Rule) entitled “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other...more

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DHS Issues Proposed Rule to Modernize H-1B Program

On October 23, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend its current regulations to modernize the H-1B visa program. DHS will accept public comments until...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: August 2023

Tuesday, August 1, 2023: JOLTS Report – Job Openings Decreased by 34k in June, Rate Steady at 5.8% Official logo for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)The number of job openings in June was 9,582,000 – a small...more

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USCIS Proposes Significant Fee Increases for Immigration Services; Will Impact U.S. Employers and Foreign Investors

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On January 4, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a Notice of Prospective Rulemaking proposing a sweeping fee hike for immigration services across the board. The proposed fee increases range between...more

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DHS Announces Proposed Fee Increases for Immigration Benefits

On January 4, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would increase fees for specific immigration and naturalization benefit requests. The department’s U.S....more

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USCIS Issues Proposed Rule to Adjust Certain Immigration and Naturalization Fees

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OVERVIEW- •On January 3, 2023, USCIS published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adjust certain benefit request fees that haven’t changed since 2016. •Fee changes could dramatically increase both L-1 and H-1B...more

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FERC NOPR seeks comment on proposed ratemaking incentives for transmission owner cybersecurity investments and expenses

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On September 22, 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (2022 NOPR) setting forth proposed utility incentives for expenses and investments relating to...more

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Data & Privacy Update: Biometric, Ransomware, PIPEDA and EU-UK Data Transfers

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2021 promises to be an exciting year in the data and privacy space. With the adoption of technologies that collect, analyze, aggregate, distribute and share data, and the implementation of new laws and regulations in...more

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District Court Invalidates New DOL and DHS H-1B Regulations

On December 1, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion for summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs that had requested to set aside two new regulations from the U.S....more

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Selection In The H-1B Cap Lottery If The Proposed New Process Takes Effect?

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On November 2, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) announcing its plan to drastically change the way USCIS selects the H-1B Cap registrations of U.S. employers. If the...more

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Beltway Buzz - October 2020 #5

Election 2020: Patience Required. Voting in the 2020 elections wraps up in just four days, on November 3, 2020. However, due to many tight races and the unprecedented volume of mail-in ballots (and states’ differing rules on...more

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Beltway Buzz - August 2020 #3

Congress’s Compromise Clues? There was lots of scuttlebutt in Washington, D.C., this week about a subsequent stimulus package, but nothing to show for it. Senate Republicans are reportedly poised to introduce a new...more

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New Proposal to Remove Disincentives to Living Organ Donation

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On December 20, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (“DHHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Proposal”) that removes financial barriers to organ donation by expanding the scope of reimbursable...more

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Beltway Buzz - November 2019 #4

Close Call. On November 21, 2019, President Donald Trump signed a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open through December 20, 2019. Given the pervasiveness of brinksmanship in Congress these days, the Buzz...more

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USCIS Proposes Additional Changes To The H-1B CAP Process

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Earlier this year, on January 31, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) amended its H-1B regulations governing petitions filed under the H-1B CAP visa lottery, to now require employers filing H-1B CAP petitions...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

DHS Proposes $10 Fee for New H-1B Cap Registration System

On September 3, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require employers seeking to file H-1B cap subject petitions to pay a $10 fee for each electronic...more

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