OFCCP Director Update: Yang Replaces Leen as the New Director

Arizona continues to be the epicenter of state immigration law activity. Arizona was the first state to mandate use of the federal government’s mostly voluntary E-Verify system with the introduction of the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) in 2008. As reported in the January 2011 issue of the Immigration eAuthority, the lawsuit seeking to invalidate LAWA is now being decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the meantime, LAWA remains the law of Arizona and employers are required to enroll in E-Verify or face possible sanctions.

Ramos v. Baldor Specialty Foods, Inc., No. 11-cv-216 (2d Cir. July 12, 2012): The plaintiffs, a group of warehouse “captains” employed during the night shift in the warehouse department of a wholesale food distributor, claimed that the company failed to pay them overtime wages in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) because they

On June 25, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a fiduciary of an “employee stock ownership plan” (ESOP) is subject to the same duty of prudence that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requires of fiduciaries in general. Justice Breyer, delivering the opinion of a…..