The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel recently published a memo, along with other resources, to clarify parts of the Board’s recent decision dealing with union organizing demands for bargaining orders.
On October 23, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which the agency indicates will modernize and improve the H-1B specialty occupation worker program.
On October 31, 2023, the NLRB and OSHA announced that the agencies have executed a Memorandum of Understanding “to strengthen the agencies’ partnership to promote safe and healthy workplaces through protecting worker voice.”
This Littler Lightbulb highlights some of the more significant employment law developments at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts of appeal in the last month.
The new Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, which was released on August 1, 2023, must be used for all new hires, effective November 1, 2023.
On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” to address the growing concerns surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
On October 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board released a final rule setting forth the standard for joint-employer status under the National Labor Relations Act.
The U.S. Department of State sent a Federal Register notice titled, “Pilot Program to Resume Renewal of H-1B Nonimmigrant Visas in the United States for Certain Qualified Noncitizens” to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on October 17, 2023
The Department of Commerce has extended the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework to cover transfers of personal data from the UK (and Gibraltar) to the United States, in addition to transfers from the EU to the United States.
