Updated I-9 Form must be in use by all employers on or before May 7, 2013

Lexology
Sills Cummis & Gross PC

Galit Kierkut and Grace A. Byrd

USA

April 16 2013

 

On or before May 7, 2013, Employers must use the new I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form (“Form I-9”) to comply with employment eligibility verification responsibilities for all new hires.

The new Form I-9 was released by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) on March 8, 2013. The new form is available for immediate use, though the USCIS has established a 60-day transition period from the date of publication to ease the burden of implementation on employers. During that transition period, employers will be able to use either prior versions or the new updated Form I-9.

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House Appropriations hearing examines DOL budget

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Littler Mendelson

Ilyse Schuman

USA

April 16 2013

 

During an Appropriations Subcommittee hearing held to analyze the Department of Labor’s budget request for fiscal year 2014, Acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris discussed several agency initiatives and programs that would benefit from the $12.1 billion in discretionary funding. President Obama released his FY 2014 Budget Proposal last Wednesday. The DOL’s portion of the budget would fund, among other activities, enforcement of whistleblower protections and worker misclassification programs, rulemaking, and internal evaluation efforts, said Harris.

 

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Who's the boss?

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Jackson Lewis LLP

Andreas N. Satterfield, Jr. and Jonathan Roth

USA

April 17 2013

 

Fifteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court held that employers can be held strictly liable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for harassment or discrimination by their supervisors, the Court is prepared to answer the question: “who is a supervisor?” The Court will decide the question when it rules on Vance v. Ball State University, 646 F.3d 461 (7th Cir. 2011), cert. granted, 133 S. Ct. 23 (U.S. 2012), which was argued on November 26, 2012.

 

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Is Affirmative Action still needed?

Iowa State Daily
By Thaddeus Mast, thaddeus.mast@iowastatedaily.com
Posted: Thursday, April 4, 2013 12:00 am | Updated: 8:34 pm, Tue Apr 9, 2013.

Affirmative Action is a policy that attempts to incorporate people who have traditionally been discriminated against into the workplace or school systems.  

 

A Supreme Court case will be deciding if affirmative action is still relevant later this year. 

 

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Supreme Court tackles affirmative action

Technician Online
Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:54 pm

Supreme Court tackles affirmative action Sara Awad, Staff Writer

 

The Supreme Court recently announced the addition of Schuette v. Coalition to its growing list of affirmative action cases.

 

Schuette v. Coalition developed in response to a Michigan state law prohibiting the inclusion of race as a factor in the college admissions process, The New York Times stated.  The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati deemed the law unconstitutional due to its incompliance with the equal protection clause. The Supreme Court will decide whether to uphold or reject the ruling.

 

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D.C. District Court affirms OFCCP’s expanding jurisdiction over the health care industry

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Wiley Rein LLP

Todd A. Bromberg, Jillian Volkmar and Christen Price

USA

   April 9 2013

 

On March 30, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed an Administrative Review Board (ARB) decision finding that the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) had jurisdiction over certain health care providers as government subcontractors.  UPMC Braddock et al., v. Harris, No. 1:09-cv-01210 (D.D.C. Mar. 30, 2013). 

The plaintiff hospitals (hospitals), affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), had contracted with the UPMC Health Plan (Health Plan) to provide medical services to individuals covered under the Health Plan.  Following the initial agreement, the Health Plan contracted in 2000 with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to provide health maintenance organization (HMO) services to certain federal employees covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP).  The hospitals continued to renew their UPMC Health Plan contract after the OPM contract took effect.

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Affirmative action and the white middle class

Nouse
The University of York's Student Newspaper
(UK)
Income clauses in bursaries or internships may lead to some of the best candidates being turned away, but ultimately a more dynamic industry will emerge

By Tom Witherow, Muse Editor
Monday 15 April 2013

There is a fund, called the Scott Trust Bursary fund, which allows for young journalists to have their postgraduate degree be funded by The Guardian. A little bit like banking internships one would expect that it would involve the hand-picking of the best of the applicants, who would then walk in to a job in King’s Place in a year’s time.

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