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The employment landscape in Illinois is rapidly changing this upcoming year. To help prepare, we’ve provided a checklist for Illinois employers on the important changes they can expect in 2020....By: Faegre Baker Daniels

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will implement the H-1B electronic registration process for the FY2021 H-1B cap season, according to its December 6, 2019 announcement. The registration period will be from March 1 through...By: Faegre Baker Daniels

Effective January 1, 2020, the Minneapolis Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance subjects employers with employees working in Minneapolis to written notice and other obligations that go beyond the requirements of the statewide wage theft law that has been...By: Faegre Baker Daniels

Holiday Pay for Part-Year Workers - In Harpur Trust v Brazel [2019] EWCA Civ 1402, the Court of Appeal considered how the holiday pay of a part-year worker should be calculated. Ms Brazel was employed as a visiting music teacher by the Harpur Trust...By: Faegre Baker Daniels

On November 7, 2019, a bill was introduced in the New Jersey legislature that would, like California’s AB 5, make it much more difficult for companies to classify workers as independent contractors....By: Faegre Baker Daniels

Construction companies seek to employ talented professionals, such as engineers, architects and project managers, to ensure their construction projects, large and small alike, are completed on time and on budget while maintaining the highest quality...By: Faegre Baker Daniels

Significant changes are expected for the upcoming H-1B cap process in 2020. With the holiday season quickly approaching, this is the time for employers to review their H-1B cap cases and processes to determine what internal changes may need to be...By: Faegre Baker Daniels

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects the rights of employees to come together to address conditions of employment with or without a union. Those protections extend to certain work-related conversations conducted on social media platforms....By: Faegre Baker Daniels

The IRS recently announced the 2020 cost-of-living adjustments to various benefit and contribution limits applicable to retirement plans and welfare plans. Retirement Plan Limits - The following limits apply to retirement plans in 2020......By: Faegre Baker Daniels

The California legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom considered and ultimately passed a number of significant laws in 2019 that will affect California employers beginning January 1, 2020. The new laws – some of which were signed into law just weeks...By: Faegre Baker Daniels