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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton has announced the issuance of Notices of Inspection (NOIs) to 1,000 employers across the country associated with critical infrastructure, alerting business owners that ICE will audit their hiring records to determine compliance with employment eligibility verification laws. “ICE is focused on finding and penalizing employers who believe they can unfairly get ahead by cultivating illegal workplaces," said Assistant Secretary Morton. "We are increasing criminal and civil enforcement of immigration-related employment laws and imposing smart, tough employer sanctions to even the playing field for employers who play by the rules."
The start of a new year provides a natural opportunity for employers to implement changes in policies and procedures to reduce exposure to legal claims and make the business more competitive in this challenging economy. Changes introduced at the beginning of a new year seem less abrupt to employees, and are therefore less disruptive to employee morale. James J. McDonald, Jr., a managing partner at the Irvine, Calif. office of the national labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP, suggests six tips for your consideration.
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"The government could improve its recruitment and save money on turnover costs by providing paid leave benefits that most Fortune 100 companies use to keep their best employees loyal and avoid costly recruitment and retraining," according to Dr. Kevin Miller, one of the authors of "The Need for Paid Parental Leave for Federal Employees: Adapting to a Changing Workforce", a report on parental leave released by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR). Two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies offer paid maternity leave, and a third also offer paid paternity leave, according to the report. Most other developed countries have national leave programs that provide much more leave than even the best American companies. The federal government, America's single largest employer, offers neither maternity nor paternity leave to its employees.
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In a recent forum at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), leaders from six nonprofit groups convened to sound the alarm about the long-term risks posed by persistently high unemployment. The U.S. unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent in October, for the first time in a quarter century and organizations including the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza, the AFL-CIO and the Center for Community Change have called for immediate action to stem a situation that they warn could pose a threat to future generations.
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More employers are taking steps to improve their employees' health by making sure they take their medicines as prescribed, a move that could stave off more serious and costly health consequences, according to a new report sponsored by the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC). Medication compliance, sometimes referred to as medication adherence, is simply following a medicine treatment plan developed by an individual's healthcare provider, filling prescriptions and taking medications as prescribed.
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In October, employers took 2,127 mass layoff actions that resulted in the separation of 217,182 workers, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single employer, and the number of mass layoff events in October decreased by 434 from the prior month, while the number of associated initial claims decreased by 30,824.
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