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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your May To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 5/5/2025

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially given the rapid pace at which the new administration has been moving on initiatives impacting the workplace and beyond. For the latest...more

Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your April To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 3/31/2025

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially given the rapid pace at which the Trump administration has been moving on initiatives impacting the workplace and beyond. For the latest...more

Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your November To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 11/6/2023

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

December 2020: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 1/6/2021

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

What's at Stake for Immigration?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/22/2020

The current administration’s course on immigration ushered in heightened standards for obtaining immigration benefits, restructuring visa allocations through executive orders and renewed and continues to emphasize immigration...more

For Federal Contractors, Another Potential Hurdle to Engaging Foreign Labor

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters on 8/10/2020

On August 3, 2020, the president issued Executive Order No. 13940 on Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices with the Interests of American Workers....more

USCIS To Increase Filing Fees While The Latest Executive Order Demands H-1B Compliance

Fisher Phillips on 8/6/2020

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration continues to install stringent measures that will impact employers hiring foreign national temporary workers. Fee Increases - On July 31, the Department...more

Executive Order Addresses Federal Contractors’ Use of Foreign Workers

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance... on 8/6/2020

Quick Hit: On August 3, 2020, President Trump issued an “Executive Order on Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices With the Interests of American Workers” (the “Order”), which requires federal agencies to perform...more

Executive Order Limits Federal Contractors’ Use of Foreign Labor

Littler on 8/5/2020

On August 3, 2020, the White House issued an Executive Order on Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices with the Interests of American Workers, directing federal agencies to contract with those who prioritize the...more

New Executive Order Lays the Groundwork for Restrictions on the Use of Foreign Labor in Performing Federal Contracts

Polsinelli on 8/5/2020

On August 3, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices with the Interests of American Workers,” signaling that the administration may seek to limit the ability...more

Compass: Insights And Direction For Employers – Winter 2020

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/3/2020

With the start of a new year, in-house counsel and human resources professionals will want to be aware of what’s on the horizon for 2020 and beyond. It’s a good time for employers to take a breath and consider what issues...more

Increased Challenges for the H-1B

Mintz - Immigration Viewpoints on 12/6/2019

Anyone who works in legal or HR and handles work authorizations for their employees will agree that hiring foreign nationals or international transfers has become much more difficult under the current administration and its...more

Beltway Buzz - April 2019 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/22/2019

EEO-1 Update. Like an army of frozen zombies descending on the North, the EEO-1 wage collection matter will not die, and its arrival is becoming more imminent with each passing day. On April 16, 2019, the U.S. District Court...more

Proposed Changes in the H-1B Cap-Subject Filing Process

Bracewell LLP on 12/4/2018

For years now employers have been confronted with severe limitations on visa numbers for new H-1B petitions. Historically, USCIS receives more than enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated H-1B cap. Therefore,...more

Is Immigration Reform Needed and Why Should Financial Institutions Care?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/7/2018

On April 18, 2017, President Trump signed the Buy American and Hire American (BAHA) Presidential Executive Order. The mandate is designed to create higher wages and employment rates for U.S. workers by administering and...more

Web Exclusive - Alternate Reality: “Extreme Vetting” Of H-1B Work Visas

Fisher Phillips on 6/11/2018

To boost innovation and remain competitive, employers often have no option but to sponsor foreign nationals for H-1B work visas to meet their labor needs, especially when it comes to workers in science, technology,...more

Well, He Wrote Me a Letter: USCIS Provides Update on Initiatives under the “Buy American and Hire American” Executive Order

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 5/24/2018

In April 2017, three months after taking office, President Trump signed the “Buy American and Hire American” Executive Order, which confirmed that his administration would be taking a tough stance on business immigration,...more