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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

DHS Shortens Deportation Protection Timeframe for Haitian Nationals – What Employers Need to Know About New TPS Designation Period

Fisher Phillips on 2/27/2025

The Trump administration just shortened the duration of deportation protections for certain Haitian nationals who are in the United States, and this change could impact your workplace. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...more

Workplace Immigration Update: February 7 Edition

Fisher Phillips on 2/7/2025

The initial weeks of President Donald Trump's second term have seen the administration enact several significant new immigration policies that have immediate implications for employers across the United States. Understanding...more

Federal Court Strikes Down Trump Administration’s DACA Rollback, But Immigration Officials Show No Signs of Compliance

Fisher Phillips on 11/23/2020

A federal judge recently struck down the Trump administration’s recent efforts to significantly restrict the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides protection from deportation for approximately...more

TPS Designation Ends for El Salvador, Making Expiring Work-Authorization Docs an Issue

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/11/2018

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on January 8 that it will not renew the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for El Salvador, giving protected Salvadorans until September 9, 2019, to either leave...more

Important Developments in Business Immigration Law

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP on 9/26/2017

The Revised Version of Travel Ban to Take Effect Next Month - On Sept. 24, President Trump issued a proclamation that indefinitely bans certain citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea from...more

Updates on DACA and Temporary Protected Status

Littler on 9/19/2017

DACA Developments - On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced that it would formally end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Since then, 19 states and the District of Columbia have...more

Employers Should Have Plan in Place for End of DACA

Ballard Spahr LLP on 9/14/2017

Employers who have employees authorized to work under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should start prepping for change in the next six months. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on September 5, 2017,...more

Trump Administration Announces Termination of Popular DACA Program

Stinson LLP on 9/11/2017

On September 5, 2017, the Department of Justice announced the wind-down of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program. The federal program, created under President Barack Obama's administration, provided work...more

The Impact of the DACA Rescission

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 9/8/2017

On September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration formally announced its intent to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. What follows is a practical guide on the impact of this latest...more

The Rescission of DACA – A Quick Overview of How This Impacts Your DACA Employees

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/7/2017

USCIS announced on September 5, 2017, that they are phasing in a rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). The DACA program began in 2012 and granted temporary status and work permits to the...more

Employers and the DACA Wind Down Decision on September 5

Dickinson Wright on 9/7/2017

On September 5, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued the unfortunate Memo to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program (Memo). DHS Acting Secretary, Elaine C. Duke, noted that...more

Dream Over? Trump Administration Announces Plans to Phase Out DACA

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/6/2017

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. "Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA," tweets President Trump on Tuesday morning. ...more

Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration to Affect the Hiring and Retention of Highly Skilled Foreign Employees

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 12/9/2014

The executive actions on immigration that President Obama announced in late November include a hodgepodge of new policies and directives that will impact millions of foreign nationals—both documented and undocumented—now...more

President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Policy

Poyner Spruill LLP on 11/25/2014

On November 21, 2014, President Obama made an announcement regarding several areas of US immigration policy. The most significant was to address approximately 4.4 million aliens living in the US without documentation. His...more

How Will Obama's Immigration Actions Impact Employers?

FordHarrison on 11/25/2014

On November 20, 2014, President Barack Obama unveiled expansive executive actions on immigration, which will grant work authorization to millions of undocumented workers. In addition, the executive actions seek to boost the...more

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