Law and the Workplace

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Coronavirus Concerns Continue as CDC Issues Additional Travel Notices

By Evandro Gigante, Nayirie K. Mehdikhani, Laura Fant and Guy Brenner on Posted in Coronavirus, Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation, Leaves of Absences, Workplace Policies and Procedures, Workplace Safety
CDC LogoAs employers are likely aware, cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (also referred to as COVID-19, but more commonly known simply as the “Coronavirus”) continue to spread. While the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to maintain that the risk to the general U.S. population presently remains low, the CDC is now … Continue Reading

Coronavirus and the Workplace: What Employers Need To Know

By Evandro Gigante, Guy Brenner, Laura Fant, Nayirie K. Mehdikhani and Alex Downie on Posted in Accessibility & Accommodation, Coronavirus, Discrimination, Harassment and Retaliation, Workplace Policies and Procedures, Workplace Safety
Coronovirus*** Last Updated: March 13, 2020 *** News that cases of the newly-identified 2019 Novel Coronavirus (also referred to as COVID-19, 2019-nCoV, or SARS-CoV-2, but more commonly known simply as the “Coronavirus”) continue to spread has prompted employers to think about employee safety and ways to address prevention in the workplace, as well as planning … Continue Reading

Summer Slow Down: For the first time in memory, the quota reserved for the most desired immigrant applicants retrogresses for natives of India and China!

By David Grunblatt and Valarie McPherson on Posted in Immigration
The Department of State published its August 2016 Visa Bulletin and it has a few impactful surprises. This is not good news for companies and foreign nationals.  Indian and Chinese foreign nationals, as usual, are the hardest hit.  Specifically, the historically open First Preference Employment Based Category (EB-1) retrogressed to January 1, 2010 for Indian … Continue Reading

The United States and China Agree: Visa Reciprocity

By David Grunblatt and Erica Loomba on Posted in Immigration
Perhaps there is not a lot that China and the United States can agree upon, but this week the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of China were able to agree upon a revision of the visa reciprocity rules, allowing Americans to obtain visas of greater duration to enter China and Chinese … Continue Reading
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