2010 may well be the year of the employee.  Both the IRS and the Department of Labor are adding investigators to find “misclassified” employees. 

President Obama signed an extension to the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 on Tuesday, extending the COBRA subsidy program enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e., the Stimulus) and extending unemployment benefits through April 5, 2010.

I have already blogged once about Undercover Boss, but I thought it would be helpful to flesh out just why the pay-docking incident in the first episode stuck in my head. 

If the answer is “yes,” it is time to start thinking about obtaining an H-1B nonimmigrant visa (“H-1B visa”) so that you may stay and work in the United States.�
What is an H-1B Visa?
Much like when in OPT (Optional Practical Training), an H-1B visa allows you to be employed by the company sponsoring the visa [...]

USCIS announced today that the H-1B Cap has been met for year 2010. This is the end of an unusually long period of time USCIS accepted H-1B nonimmigrant visa petitions. This does not effect extensions, amendments, or change of employers for current H-1B visa holders.
Employers may resume filing H-1B petitions on April 1, 2010 for [...]

On December 14, 2009, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that 62,500 H-1B cap-subject petitions have been filed.  Remarkably, this is a 1,000 petition increase over the 61,500 USCIS announced it has received on December 8, 2009.�
The H-1B visa is among the most coveted by U.S. employers because it allows foreign workers in [...]