Recently, federal employment laws have been revised, clarified and implemented. In this column, I’ll focus on these: The Form I-9 policies due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been terminated, while the disease itself may now be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Predispute arbitration and predispute joint action waivers will now be invalid for sexual assault or harassment dispute claims, but not for sexual and other discrimination claims. In addition, a federal judge ruled against the Biden administration, so continue utilizing the Trump-era requirements when determining if an individual is an independent contractor.
Form I-9
Since 2020, the Department of Homeland Security permits companies to accept expired List B identity documents due to the closure or restricted operations of many issuing government agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic. This ends on April 30. An organization that received expired List B documents between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2022, must update the Forms I-9 of current employees by July 31. A staff member who presented an expired document needs to provide an unexpired List B document or a List A document. The business is required to enter, initial and date the following information in the Section 2, “Additional Information” field: title, issuing authority, number and expiration date.
In addition, on several occasions during 2020 and 2021, the DHS permitted and extended the ability of new hires working remotely to...
The Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has rejected claims that he has withdrawn or rescinded the gazetted renaming of Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sobukwe Town, along with other geo...