The release of selections occurred less than a week after the conclusion of the H-1B cap registration period. This year’s H-1B lottery selections were conducted over a span of five days and concluded on April 1, 2024, when USCIS…

Congress on Spring Break … What’s on Deck? The U.S. Congress remains out on spring break this week and is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., the week beginning April 8, 2024. With 2024 funding for the federal government wrapped…

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• Pennsylvania amended its tax law to make amounts contributed to dependent care assistance excludable for income tax purposes.
• The change aligns Pennsylvania with the federal treatment and is retroactive for the 2023 tax year.
• Employers may have withheld

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• Florida enacted legislation that will ease employment restrictions for minors sixteen and seventeen years old.
• The law gives parents and school superintendents the ability to waive the limitation on minors working only thirty hours per week while school

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• There are signs that OSHA’s protracted rulemaking process with regard to a heat injury and illness standard may be moving forward in earnest.
• OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health will meet on April 24, 2024, to

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• The respective paid sick leave laws of the State of Washington and the City of Seattle have recently been clarified and updated.
• Under Washington’s paid sick and safe leave law, only construction workers who are directly engaged in

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• The FDIC released proposed revisions to its guidelines for reviewing bank mergers.
• The proposed revisions include a prohibition on banks using noncompete agreements with employees of units that are divested as part of the merger.
• The FDIC is

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