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SHRM | March 10, 2020

An extra 35,000 H-2B temporary-worker visas will be made available to employers for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2020, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The H-2B guest-worker program, capped annually at 66,000 visas split evenly between the fall/winter and spring/summer seasons, is relied upon by the landscaping, hospitality and construction industries, among others. This marks the fourth year in a row that DHS has released additional H-2B visas in response to pressu...

Provape | February 28, 2020

Representatives will vote on house bill HR 2339. The bill would prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco, flavored pipe tobacco, flavored vape e-juices, electronic cigarettes, and disposable nicotine products. House bill HR 2339 – The Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic ACT was sponsored by Rep. Frank Pallone of the New Jersey and Donna Shalala of Florida. The bill was introduced a year ago, and now the house representatives will decide whether to ban flavored vaping sales in all 50 states. ...

HR Dive | April 17, 2020

The total cost to U.S. employee benefit plans caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could exceed $23 billion, according to a report published earlier this month by the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a research nonprofit. That figure assumes a "high range" outcome in which the pandemic results in over 15 million U.S. cases, IBI said, and it includes estimates of costs due to short-term disability claims, potential sick leave wages and other benefits for workers absent due to COVID-19. T...

HR Dive | January 24, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many parts of work, including talent acquisition. But AI skills are unevenly distributed among industries and nations, and without intervention, this problem may further widen today's digital divide, according to an INSEAD report released Jan. 22 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. To truly realize the tech's potential — perhaps an ability to address poverty, endemic diseases, climate change and terrorism — employers...