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Fowler White Boggs P.A. Fort Lauderdale, FL Document Search Results (9) Sort by:  | EEOC Hearing On Employer Criminal Background Checks Portends Upcoming Changes To The Hiring Process
Kelly H. Kolb; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article April 23, 2012, previously published on April 2012 The EEOC will hold a public meeting on April 25 to discuss a common aspect of the hiring process ¿ criminal background checks on applicants. This meeting follows one held by the EEOC last July and follows the EEOC's 2005 Informal Discussion Letter which stated that a “blanket...
| | Q&A on RFOA Defense Provides Practical Guidance on Unintentional Age Bias
Heather B. Brock; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article April 11, 2012, previously published on April 2012 In conjunction with its final rule setting forth the “reasonable factors other than age” (RFOA) defense in disparate impact cases brought under the ADEA, the EEOC has issued a Q&A document explaining the new regulation, according to CCH Employment Law Daily. The final rule applies to...
| | The Inability to Work Overtime Is Not ADA Disability
Kelly H. Kolb; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article March 21, 2012, previously published on March 2012 In today’s economy, employers are asking more from fewer employees. Usually, this reality manifests itself in required overtime. Lately, however, employees are resisting or refusing to work overtime invoking protections under the Family Medical Leave Act and, most recently, the Americans With...
| | Congressional Research Service Studies the Effect of Per-Country Caps on Visa Backlogs
Joel Stewart; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article March 5, 2012, previously published on February 2012 In response to somewhat recent arguments in favor of lifting the per-country caps on immigrant admissions, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) conducted a study of approved pending employment-based immigrant petitions to explore lifting the caps as a policy option. Unfortunately, the results...
| | United States Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutionality of Healthcare Reform
Kathy J. Tayon; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article March 5, 2012, previously published on February 2012 One of the most important healthcare law issues of 2012 is how the United States Supreme Court will rule on the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion mandate in the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). The ACA became law in 2010. The individual mandate utilizes the tax collection...
| | Supreme Court Finds Tax Fraud to be an Aggravated Felony
Glenn M. Cooper; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article February 23, 2012, previously published on February 2012 On February 21, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court made a decision in Kawishima v. Holder, putting an end to the circuit split on the issue of whether tax fraud constitutes an aggravated felony. As reported in our November 17, 2011 eNews, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the Kawishima case on...
| | NLRB Notice of Rights - Part III
Kelly H. Kolb; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article October 12, 2011, previously published on October 11, 2011 As mentioned in our September 15, 2011 news alert, the NLRB recently published a final regulation requiring all employers subject to the National Labor Relations Act to post a Notice of Rights Poster by November 14, 2011. Citing reported “confusion” by businesses as to whether they fall...
| | New Estate And Gift Tax Law - Opportunities and Pitfalls
Joseph T. Ducanis; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article July 20, 2011, previously published on July 19, 2011 On December 17, 2010, the “Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010” was signed into law by President Obama. While the title of the law does not give any hint of its effect on estate and gift taxes, there were some monumental changes made in that...
| | Wall Street Reform Legislation Will Have Impact on Some Employer Background Checks
Kelly H. Kolb; Fowler White Boggs P.A.;
Legal Alert/Article June 23, 2011, previously published on June 2011 In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”). The thrust of the Dodd-Frank Act is to end “too big to fail” and implement preventative regulatory oversight of the...
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