2010 may well be the year of the employee. Both the IRS and the Department of Labor are adding investigators to find “misclassified” employees. For many years, employers have relied on independent contractors as a means of controlling payroll and benefits costs, as well as reducing the costs of recruiting and training new workers. The [...]

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.

With an escalation in employer inspections by United States Immigration and Citizenship Services (USCIS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Labor (DOL), it has become vital that employers with H-1B employees have their H-1B Public Access Files in order. What Documents Should be in a H-1B Public Access File? To avoid potential [...]

President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 last week. Generally known as the economic stimulus law, it creates new COBRA rules intended to help those who were involuntarily terminated from employment (i.e., fired or laid off) between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009 and lost their group medical plan coverage. [...]