The firm’s client, a pharmaceutical manufacturing and packing company, hired a Regulatory Affairs Manager who had been sponsored for an H-1B visa by a previous employer.  Because the validity of an H-1B visa is specific to the sponsoring company, the firm filed an H-1B transfer petition and proved to the satisfaction of the United States

Barry Levy, Brian Bank, and Catalina De La Hoz secured pre-answer dismissal, with prejudice, of all claims against their client, a labor union, brought by a former union member.  The case arose after the union declined to file an Article 75 proceeding to vacate an arbitration award sustaining the termination of the former member’s employment

On April 11, USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process to choose enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap of 85,000 for fiscal year 2019. USCIS received 190,098 H-1B petitions during the filing period that began on April 2.

Applicants whose petitions have been selected will receive a receipt notice within the next

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has reached the 65,000 H-1B visa cap mandated by Congress for fiscal year 2019. USCIS has noted that it has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the 20,000 visa U.S. advanced-degree exemption, known as the master’s cap.

As in prior years

Henry Mascia obtained a TN visa for a computer systems analyst from Canada.  The foreign national had received and renewed a TN visa in the computer systems analyst category for many years.  But on his last attempt to renew, the officer at the port of entry denied his application.  The firm ascertained the basis for the

Scott Green spoke on the revised federal guidelines regarding paying interns in a Newsday article entitled, “More Unpaid Internships Likely after Revised Federal Rules.”

Green notes that the prior six-factor test for determining whether an intern must be paid was difficult for the courts to contend with.

TN visas are for highly skilled Mexican and Canadian professionals.  TN visas, which are issued pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are only available for certain professions, but they offer employers tremendous flexibility due to the expedited application process at the border and the potential for indefinite renewals.

In this case, foreign

On Thursday, March 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Michael Mulè will host the second program in the Business Owners Seminar Series (BOSS). Scott Green will give a presentation entitled, “Employers: Learn How to Keep your Business out of Legal Hot Water,” in which he will discuss ways business owners can protect themselves from employment law liability.

Ken Novikoff and John Diviney are featured in an article published in the Long Island Business News, “Listening To Women In the Workplace.”

Click here to read.

In an action pending in the Nassau County Commercial Division, Ken Novikoff and Scott Green were successful in persuading the Supreme Court to vacate the TRO initially issued barring its client, Catherine Scalia, from working for TrueCar, an alleged competitor of her former employee, the multi-billion-dollar, multinational company Cox Automotive, and deny Cox’s motion for