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Processing delays for immigration cases have increased by 46 percent in the past two fiscal years and 91 percent since FY 2014. Businesses complain that they cannot obtain H-1B visas for key employees. Congress is looking into why these delays are...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

In recent years, healthcare-focused private equity firms and start-ups are looking to minimize risk by investing in less regulated healthcare sectors....By: Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Coops and condos will not need to pay their service employees prevailing wages to keep their units eligible for the Cooperative and Condominium Tax Abatement (the abatement). The abatement reduces property taxes between 17.5 and 28.1 percent on...By: Cozen O'Connor

A California appellate court last week issued a decision in Wilson v. CNN, applying and interpreting the scope of last year’s Supreme Court ruling in the same case, which had itself resolved a circuit split in the state as to whether California’s...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

The City of Philadelphia’s effort to ban employers from asking about the wage history of job applicants is one step closer to reality now that a federal appeals court has rejected a First Amendment challenge to the law. The ruling in the closely...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Almost daily, we read about employer failure to comply with award or enterprise agreement obligations. Opportunistically and in keeping with the sport of “business bashing”, the failure is termed “wage-theft”, as if to brand every failure deliberate...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) has issued the final regulations concerning the state's Earned Sick Leave Law (ESLL). These regulations, along with 118 comments and responses, provide guidance on how employers...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), feared by some to be the death of independent contractor relationships in California, faces a growing number of lawsuits. Organizations representing three industries have filed lawsuits challenging the bill on...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

A federal court in Sacramento explained last week its rationale for temporarily barring the State of California from enforcing a new law, AB 51, that would curtail employment arbitration agreements. The rationale set forth in that written order of...By: Weintraub Tobin

The New York City Council has proposed additional legislation that would have a major impact on businesses falling within the broad definition of “fast food establishments” and has scheduled a hearing on the bills for February 13....By: Cozen O'Connor