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Register Now! Annual Compliance/Best Practices Seminar

WHEN: May 11, 2017

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

WHERE: Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel

375 South Moorland Road

Brookfield, WI

Registration and a continental breakfast will be served beginning at 7:30 a.m.  Click here to register.

This COMPLIMENTARY half-day event will address the latest labor and employment topics impacting employers including:

  • Annual Employment Law Update (including recent developments in immigration, the Affordable Care Act and white collar overtime regulations)
  • Social Media Pitfalls and Best Practices
  • FMLA Update – A Best Practices Review
  • Drafting, Enforcing and Litigating Confidentiality, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreements
  • Navigating the ADA, FMLA and Worker’s Compensation

EMPLOYERS TO BEGIN USING REVISED FORM I-9

November 14, 2016

By:  Laurie A. Petersen and Samantha J. Wood

Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a revised version of the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9.  While this revised form is available now for use, employers may continue using the March 2013 version until January 21, 2017.  After January 21, 2017, employers MUST use the revised form, available at: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9

The revised Form I-9 is much more user-friendly, containing the following changes:

  • Electronic buttons that allow users to: access the full instructions, print the form, and clear the form to start over.
  • Electronic buttons that provide drop down instructions.
  • Prompts and validations to ensure information is entered correctly.
  • Drop down lists and calendars.
  • Section 1 asks for “other last names used” rather than “other names used.”
  • Additional space to allow the entry of multiple preparers and translators and an additional box labeled “I did not use a preparer or translator.”
  • A supplemental page for the preparer/translator.
  • A dedicated area for including additional information rather than having to add it in the margins.
  • The removal of the requirement that immigrants authorized to work provide both their Form I-94 number and foreign passport information.
  • A new “Citizenship/Immigration Status” field.
  • A quick response (QR) code, which is automatically generated when the employer prints the form.

If you have questions about this material, please contact Laurie A. Petersen or Samantha J. Wood by email at lpetersen@lindner-marsack.com or swood@lindner-marsack.com, or any other attorney you have been working with here at Lindner & Marsack, S.C.

USCIS Extends Eligibility for Employment Authorization to Certain H-4 Dependent Spouses of H-1B Nonimmigrants

On February 24, 2015, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued final amended regulations, revising 8 C.F.R. Parts 214 and 274a.  The revised regulations extend eligibility for employment authorization to certain H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants who are seeking employment-based lawful permanent resident status.  Eligible individuals include H-4 dependent spouses of H-1B nonimmigrants who either (1) are the principal beneficiaries of an approved Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker; or (2) have been granted H-1B status under sections 106(a) and (b) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000.

H-4 dependent spouses may file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, with supporting evidence and the required fee beginning on May 26, 2015.  Forms I-765 may be filed concurrently with an Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status (Form I-539).

If you have questions about this material, please contact Laurie A. Petersen or Samantha J. Wood by email at lpetersen@lindner-marsack.com or swood@lindner-marsack.com, or any other attorney you have been working with here at Lindner & Marsack, S.C.