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Posted: | Jackson Lewis Category: Immigration - Visas
As of September 10, 2024, USCIS will automatically extend the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (or “Green Cards”), for which a Form I-90, Application to Renew or Replace Permanent Resident Cards has been submitted, for 36 months. The previous automatic extension was for 24 months.
Although Permanent Resident status
Posted: | Ford Harrison Category: Law Firm News
Kathryn Russo discusses the workplace safety and testing practice concerns surrounding marijuana use in the construction industry in “How construction managers can deal with changing marijuana laws,” published by Construction Dive.
Posted: | Ford Harrison Category: Law Firm News
Audrey Olson Gardner discusses the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s interest in applying the Teamsters method to one-time reduction-in-force cases, particularly in the context of alleged age discrimination in “Spirit Age Discrimination Appeal Tests Layoff as Pattern of Bias,” published by Bloomberg Law.
Posted: | Ford Harrison Category: Law Firm News
Posted: | Ford Harrison Category: Law Firm News
Berkeley Heights Partner Heather Boshak was featured in the Law360 article, “Fox Rothschild Employment Atty Joins FordHarrison in NJ Office.”
Posted: | Ford Harrison Category: Law Firm News
FordHarrison LLP, one of the country’s largest management-side labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce that six partners, Geetha N. Adinata, Frank L. Day Jr., Patricia G. Griffith, Kimberly Ross, Mark Saloman, and Dawn Siler-Nixon, were listed in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers Guide for 2025. The list honors more than 600 attorneys who specialize in employment litigation, defending trade secrets, discrimination, ERISA, wage and hour, immigration, executive compensation and benefits, and other claims. The guide is 46 percent female and 26 percent inclusive. To view Lawdragon’s full 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers Guide, click here.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Harvard Business Review
Management professor and author Ellen Van Oosten takes questions from listeners who are struggling to move into management and offers advice on how to make the transition.
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: Michigan
Following the Michigan Supreme Court’s July 31, 2024, ruling that the state legislature’s December 2018 “adopt and amend” action was unconstitutional, and that the state’s minimum wage will increase in 2025, the court has now clarified what those minimum wage increases will be when the law takes effect on February
Posted: | Ogletree Deakins Category: Florida - General
Tropical Storm Helene is projected to hit Florida’s Gulf Coast as a major hurricane later this week, and evacuations are already underway in parts of the state. Employers are likely to face inevitable workplace safety risks with the storm and recovery.
Posted: | Maynard Nexsen PC Category: FLSA - Federal Minimum Wage
On August 26, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland decided in Teamsters Local Union No. 355 v. Total Distribution Services, Inc., that the Maryland Economic Stabilization Act (“Maryland WARN Act” or “Act”) does not provide individuals with the right to file suit in their personal capacity
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Forbes
Gen Z is asking for more from their employer: mental health days, work from home two days a week, legal insurance, pet insurance, travel perks, tuition assistance, college debt relief, access to live event tickets and even “emergency fund” access.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: LA Times
Union leaders say the county isn’t following the terms of its 2022 labor pact.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Fortune
Tech giants have spent the last two years culling their middle managers. Amazon was the latest to send theirs to the chopping block just last week. Now, Gen Zers don’t even want to climb the greasy pole.
Posted: | elinfonet Category: HR Headlines Tags: Fast Company
The strategic insights uncovered through psychometrics are helping companies make smarter staffing decisions and bring the next generation of talent along. Here’s how to apply them in your own company.