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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

E-Verify Revocation Lists for CHNV Updated: Employers Have to Add One More Thing to Their To-Do Lists

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/23/2025

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) initially deployed the Status Change Report on June 20, 2025, to help certain employers identify whether any E-Verify cases were created using an Employment Authorization...more

Between Enforcement and Protection: What Employees Need to Know About State and Federal Immigration Policy Shifts

Phelps Dunbar on 7/16/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently announced a suspension in enforcing the 2024 rule from the Biden Administration that is designed to enhance protections for H-2A workers....more

Update: USCIS Expands Eligibility for 540-Day EAD Extension

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 7/1/2025

After reaching out to both U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) for clarification, USCIS has issued a significant and unexpected update...more

Immigration Enforcement Actions and Compliance – Best Practices for Employers

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 2/10/2025

Through a series of sweeping executive orders, the Trump Administration has launched a systematic overhaul of U.S. immigration policy. The Administration’s prioritization of immigration enforcement will likely impact...more

DHS Introduces Alternative Remote I-9 Verification Procedure and New Form I-9

Perkins Coie on 8/3/2023

While recent changes to the I-9 process may affect select employers, the release of a new I-9 form will present changes to all employers. Qualifying employers are able to utilize an alternative verification procedure to...more

Changes to I-9 Documentation Review Procedure for Qualified Employers; Release of New Edition of Form I-9

Troutman Pepper Locke on 8/1/2023

Alternative I-9 Documentation Review Procedure Available to Qualified Employers Registered With E-Verify - In the Federal Register published on July 25, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of...more

DHS Announces New I-9 Form and New Limited Remote I-9 Verification

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 7/31/2023

On July 25, 2023, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new version of the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification Form. The new version of the...more

Summer Doldrums? Not for Human Resources Teams and I-9s!

Guidepost Solutions LLC on 7/26/2023

I don’t think the word “doldrums” is used very much anymore, but I do remember it vividly from when I was a child. It was predominantly used in connection to the lazy hazy days of summer when things were hotter than heck and...more

DHS Announces New Form I-9 and Remote Verification for E-Verify Employers

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/25/2023

The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced on July 21, 2023 they will publish a revised version of Form I-9 on August 1, 2023. DHS also announced an enhanced remote verification flexibility using video for E-Verify...more

Web Exclusive: The Top 14 Workplace Law Stories Of December 2019

Fisher Phillips on 1/7/2020

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Beltway Buzz - April 2019 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/22/2019

EEO-1 Update. Like an army of frozen zombies descending on the North, the EEO-1 wage collection matter will not die, and its arrival is becoming more imminent with each passing day. On April 16, 2019, the U.S. District Court...more

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