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New Risks of the Evolving Workforce
Is Your Business in Compliance?
Remote work is not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated the necessity and implementation of remote and virtual collaboration. The urgency to adopt new technologies and ways of working remotely may not have not allowed employers adequate time to explore the potential implications of a myriad of laws and regulations on their businesses and the accompanying risks created by managing their workforces in these new ways.
Through webinars and thought leadership, our lawyers from across practice areas provide businesses with information to make sure they are in compliance as the workforce model continues to evolve.
Thought Leadership
On 30 January 2024, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a final rule (Final Rule) increasing the premium processing fee from US$2,500 to US$2,805, increasing filing fees for I-129 and I-140 employment-based petitions, and imposing a new Asylum Program Fee for each Form I-129 and I-140 filed by employers.
On 3 April 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced the first settlement with a stand-alone registered investment adviser for, among other things, failures to maintain and preserve certain electronic communications.
On 22 December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments (the final rule) to Rule 206(4)-1 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act) to modernize the regulation of investment adviser advertising and solicitation practices.
On 7 March 2024, the Illinois Pollution Control Board proposed amendments to its Ground Water Quality regulations, which would set standards for selected per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances compounds at or near their levels of detection and would result in some of the most stringent standards in the country.