Plaintiff Entitled to Employer’s Customers’ Addresses, District of New Jersey Holds

On January 19, 2017, the New Jersey Assembly Labor Committee advanced a bill (A-4410) that would require written contracts between “freelance workers” and their hiring entity (“client”). Those contracts would need to include (i) an itemization of all services to be provided by the freelance worker; (ii) a description of how the freelancer worker’s compensation will be calculated; and (iii) the date on which the client will pay the freelance worker or the mechanism by which that date will be calculated. The bill defines a freelance worker as any “sole proprietor who is not an employee and who is hired or retained as a freelance worker by a client to provide services in exchange for compensation in an amount equal to or greater than $600.”

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a last-minute delay of the new export control attestations on Form I-129 on December 22. Originally scheduled to take effect on December 23, the new attestation would require employers seeking to sponsor foreign nationals for employment in H-1B, H-1B1, L-1 and O-1 visa categories to certify compliance with

On December 12, 2022, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would automatically extend the validity of permanent resident cards (green cards) for lawful permanent residents (LPRs) who have applied for naturalization, i.e., citizenship.