On August 8, 2020, President Trump issued four executive actions–one executive order and three Presidential Memoranda–aimed at extending various coronavirus relief programs that have already expired, or are set to expire, in the absence of congressional action. These executive actions may be subject to legal challenges, including that the President exceeded his authority by taking […]
President Trump’s Proclamation suspending the entry of foreign nationals on certain employment based nonimmigrant visas into the United States takes effect at 12:01 EST on June 24, 2020. The Proclamation suspends the issuance of visas for those in the following non-immigrants categories: H-1B (specialty occupation), H-2B (non-agricultural workers), J (exchange visitors) and L (intra-company transferees). […]
On June 3, the United States Senate passed the “Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act” (Act), which is designed to create additional flexibility for borrowers under the terms of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The Act previously passed the United States House of Representatives and now heads to the President for signature, which is expected in the […]
President Trump late yesterday signed a Proclamation Suspending Entry of Immigrants Who Present Risk to the U.S. Labor Market During the Economic Recovery Following the COVID-19 Outbreak. For more information, click here.
On September 26, 2019, the Senate confirmed labor and employment attorney Eugene Scalia for Labor Secretary, in a 53-44 vote that was divided along party lines. Scalia served as the Labor Department’s chief legal officer from 2002-2003, before entering private practice. The son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Eugene Scalia will assume […]
Just as businesses were expressing cautious optimism over the interim replacement of Labor Secretary Acosta by veteran GOP operative and business ally Patrick Pizzella, on July 18, 2019 the President announced plans to nominate business attorney Eugene Scalia to fill the role. The son of former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and current attorney at […]
On April 25, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a ruling accepting the EEOC’s proposal (which we previously reported on here) that employers who file EEO-1 reports must submit wage data broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity by Sep. 30, 2019. In addition, Judge Chutkan ordered the EEOC to collect a second year of […]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just announced that it will require employers who file EEO-1 reports (typically employers with at least 100 employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees and at least $50,000 in contracts) to submit wage data broken down by race, sex, and ethnicity by Sep. 30, 2019. This […]
In Purple Communications Inc., 361 NLRB No. 126 (December 11, 2014) the NLRB reversed established precedent that employees did not have statutory rights to use their employers’ email resources for union activity. In that case, the Board held that employees that have been given access to their employers’ email systems, must be permitted to use […]
Although the federal Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not require employers to provide paid leave, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed late last year by President Trump, provides a tax credit incentive beginning this year for employers who provide FMLA paid leave, if they meet a number of requirements. The tax credit […]