On July 25, 2022, USCIS announced that it will continue accepting copies of original signatures on all forms and documents. This makes permanent the temporary signature policy that USCIS announced in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This impacts H-2A and H-2A users, and anyone who submits forms to USCIS. USCIS will accept copies of original signatures…
On July 28th, the Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) issued a decision that, for the first time, assesses civil penalties against an employer that fired a group of farmworkers it misclassified as independent contractors. In 2017, Marisol Jimenez, a farmworker employed with Cinagro Farms, filed a complaint with the ALRB alleging that his work crew ...
As we previously reported, the United States Supreme Court in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, delivered a victory for California employers, albeit one that may be short lived. The high court held that employers can compel arbitration of a plaintiff’s “individual claim” under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA), resulting in the remaining “collective…
On August 11th, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) relaxed its Covid-19 recommendations, which rescinds and alters a number of key recommendations, including treating unvaccinated and vaccinated people differently for many purposes, explicitly stating that people with previous infection have protection against severe illness, and dropping six-foot social distancing standard. The shift in…