WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and members of Congress have turned their attention to immigration reform, unveiling their ideas on how to overhaul the federal immigration system for the first time in 27 years. Lawyers representing employers and immigrants are ...

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Tens of thousands of businesses in Alabama missed a deadline to register with E-Verify under a strict new state immigration law.

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Employment law has been a hot practice area and 2011 did not disappoint. Here are some of the highlights of the past year’s most notable employment law stories:

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California recently enacted a number of employment-related laws, including a requirement to provide health insurance during family leave and adding gender identification and genetic information as protected categories from discrimination.

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A federal appeals court has formally withdrawn its decision declaring unconstitutional ordinances targeting illegal immigrants that were enacted by a Pennsylvania town in 2006.

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WASHINGTON – Legislation introduced in the Senate would make use of the federal E-Verify system mandatory for all employers within one year of enactment.

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Hot on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding Arizona’s law mandating that employers use E-Verify to check a worker’s immigration and work authorization status, a federal bill requiring all employers to use the federal database has been ...

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The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding an Arizona law imposing sanctions on employers who hire undocumented workers and mandating the use of the federal E-Verify database has drawn criticisms from immigration lawyers as well as from attorneys for business ...

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A state law imposing sanctions on employers who hire undocumented workers and mandating the use of the federal E-Verify database is not preempted by federal immigration law. See “State E-Verify mandate not preempted by federal law.” U.S. Supreme Court. Chamber ...

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A state law imposing sanctions on employers who hire undocumented workers and mandating the use of the federal E-Verify database is not preempted by federal immigration law, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.

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