Insights

On January 25, 2021, President Biden issued a new proclamation imposing travel restrictions on certain individuals who have been physically present in South Africa within 14 days of traveling to the US. Effective January 30,...

On January 20, 2021, his first day in office, President Biden issued five immigration-related executive orders and sent a sweeping immigration reform bill to Congress. Among other things, the executive orders will reverse the...

Last week, the Trump administration finalized and published a new rule which essentially dismantles the existing H-1B visa lottery, and replaces it with a new system which will allocate H-1B visas to the highest bidder. The...

Scott Budow, an associate at Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP, will serve as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law this upcoming semester, where he will teach Legal Writing. While the class will be...

California’s Division of Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) adopted Emergency Temporary Standards (“the Standards”) to prevent the further spread of COVID-19 infections in the workplace, which were approved by...

On December 29, 2020, New York Governor Cuomo announced modified COVID-19 quarantine guidelines, available here, which align with a portion of the revised quarantine guidelines announced by the Centers for Disease Control...

On December 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (the “Act”), funding the federal government for the 2021 fiscal year.  Attached to the Act was an approximately $908 billion stimulus...

In light of a new virulent strain of COVID-19, the United States is requiring all airline passengers coming from the United Kingdom to produce a negative COVID-19 test before entering the US. As of Monday, December 28th,...

On December 2, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) posted “[o]ptions to reduce quarantine” on its website.  Employers should be aware, however, that in the same communication, the CDC advises that “[l]ocal...

A federal district court in California has set aside two new interim final rules recently promulgated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL), both of which were aimed at making it more...