Insights

Update The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its publication, titled “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws,” to provide further guidance to...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published “Guidance on Returning to Work” (Guidance).  OSHA states that this “creates no new legal obligations” and is “advisory in nature.”  The...

The EEOC recently updated its technical guidance, “What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws” to confirm (as previously reported here) that employers cannot...

Proclaiming to protect the US labor market, on Monday, June 22, 2020, President Trump signed a new executive order restricting entry into the United States of most H-1B (specialty occupation professional), H-2B...

Immigration policy experts expect that a new Presidential Proclamation, aimed at further restricting the entry of nonimmigrants into the United States, will be issued imminently. Although we do not yet have the precise...

On June 3, 2020 the Senate passed the Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act of 2020 (PFA), amending the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), previously described here. President Trump is expected to sign the bill, which was...

Update Please see the Confidentiality section of this article for additional information regarding temperature screening in New York. May 15, 2020 As employers begin to plan for a return to the workplace, they must...

On May 29, 2020, President Trump issued a proclamation suspending the issuance of F (student) and J (exchange visitor) visas for certain Chinese applicants whom the US government believes may pass sensitive information to the...

Update: The New York Forward website now includes “Interim COVID-19 Guidance” for the following businesses allowed to reopen in the five regions which have reached Phase 2 of the New York State reopening...

After an almost 3-month suspension, USCIS announced that certain field offices and asylum offices will reopen to the public on Thursday, June 4, 2020. Individuals whose interviews or naturalization ceremonies were previously...