OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations: Understanding the Fine Print
Public works contractors and subcontractors in New Jersey are required to submit certified payroll records on an ongoing basis – but starting August 15, those records must be submitted electronically to the New Jersey...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will conduct its annual electronic registration process for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap from March 6, 2024 to March 22, 2024. This year USCIS is implementing...more
On July 17, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a new final rule amending its occupational injury and illness recordkeeping regulation and imposing new electronic reporting requirements on...more
Amendments to New Jersey’s Unemployment Compensation Law (UCL) are scheduled to take effect on July 31, 2023. One of the most significant changes to the UCL is that employers will now need to electronically report certain...more
New Jersey employers should prepare now for significant new reporting obligations under the state’s Unemployment Compensation Law. Recent amendments will require employers to conduct all communications with the New Jersey...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released its revised electronic recordkeeping regulation, “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses,” on July 17. Most significantly, the revised regulation...more
On June 30, 2022 the EPA Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued the results of an evaluation to determine if EPA’s process for screening self-reported environmental violations through electronic disclosure is effective....more
1. The National Labor Relations Board modified its electronic notice posting requirements for workplaces impacted by COVID-19. Paragon Systems, Inc., 371 NLRB No. 104 (June 2, 2022)....more
Join OSHA attorneys Michael Rubin and Stefan A. Borovina as they take a deep dive into an employer’s obligation to record workplace injuries and illnesses, as well as what the future holds for electronic recordkeeping...more
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a proposed rule to restore and expand Obama-era requirements for high-hazard employers with at least 100 employees to submit their injury and illness...more
Report on Research Compliance 18, no. 12 (December, 2021) - A month after rumors circulated that President Biden planned to tap former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf to serve again, the...more
Effective December 8, 2020, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry has determined that employers no longer need to report single COVID-19 positive cases to the Virginia Department of Health. However, after an outbreak...more
Two significant changes to California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) noticing and filing requirements and procedures recently took effect. First, on September 23, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-80-20...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) promulgated a final rule in the November 2nd Federal Register addressing the Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) Electronic...more
La Dirección de Impuestos y Aduanas Nacionales (DIAN) emitió la Resolución 38 del 30 de abril de 2020, e implementó la notificación electrónica en la Unidad Administrativa Especial – de la DIAN. Esta Resolución busca regular...more
Business Corporation Law (“BCL”) §708(b) allows any action required or permitted to be taken by a board (or any committee thereof) to be taken without a meeting if all members of the board (or the committee) consent in...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is set to take a big first step toward the implementation of its new electronic registration system for fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap cases (those subject to the annual...more
- New DHS regulation mandates use of an electronic H-1B registration system. - Registration system will be open for only 20 days. - Employers who win H-1B lottery but then do not file H-1B petitions may be penalized....more
USCIS Officially Releases Regulations Regarding Its H-1B Electronic Registration Tool for the FY 2021 H-1B Cap - On January 9, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) officially released regulations to...more
On November 8, 2019, USCIS published a Final Rule in the Federal Register implementing a new registration fee requirement for those employers who seek to file cap-subject H-1B petitions. Under the new rule, which is effective...more
For the first time ever, federal immigration authorities will be implementing an electronic registration system for H-1B petitions that is intended to simplify the annual process. In a December 6 announcement, U.S....more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will implement the new electronic registration process for the fiscal year (FY) 2021 H-1B cap lottery. Employers intending to file H-1B cap-subject petitions...more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on December 6 that it is implementing an electronic registration process in the next H-1B lottery. ...more
El pasado 22 de noviembre, a través del Decreto – Ley 2106 de 2019 entraron a regir nuevas medidas que el gobierno nacional en Colombia impulsó para garantizar una mayor agilidad en los trámites que se adelantan ante el...more