June 2013
On April 11, 2013, the American Immigration Lawyers Association Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee held a meeting with officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) HSI Worksite Enforcement Unit. One of the issues discussed was the advance preparation of Section 1 of the I-9 form by electronic I-9 programs. This is an importan...
By December 1, 2013, U.S. employers must be ready to comply with new hazard communications (“HazComm”) standards. The new rules bring the United States into alignment with other countries that have signed onto the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). They replace and expand upon OS...
Employers have long been warned that they must include at-will employment language in their employment policies, in order to preclude an employee from claiming that the employer’s employee handbook or other personnel policies constituted an enforceable contract. These provisions are often written by lawyers and referred to as “disclaimers.&rdq...
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