HR Benefits
Benefits are a form of compensation paid by employers to employees over and above the amount of pay specified as a base salary or hourly rate of pay. Benefits are a portion of a total compensation package for employees. Employee benefits are designed to provide security to you and your family, and to improve your quality of life. This is FindLaw’s collection of HR Benefits articles, part of the Human Resources section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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HR Benefits Articles
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Social Security Administration Benefit-Cutoff for Disabled is Ruthless
The Social Security Administration has devised a plan to divide and conquer. Within the past three years, the administration, in its campaign to reduce cost no matter at whose expense, has proposed, one at a time, a series of regulations to ...
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Social Security Permits Trial Work Period
The Social Security Administration has issued a ruling which holds that work performed by a disabled worker at least 5 months after the alleged onset date but before a filing of disability should be considered part of the "Trial Work Period" and ...
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Suspected Disability Fraud Meets “Gross Misconduct” Standard under COBRA
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently ruled that an employer did not violate COBRA's notice requirements when it failed to extend COBRA privileges to a terminated employee whom the employer believed had ...
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Temporary Work Visas Explained
There are primarily three broad categories, or classifications, under which foreign-born persons can be legally present in the United States: They may be U.S. citizens through naturalization or birth abroad to U.S. parents, permanent residents (or ...
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The E Visa Option for Foreign-Owned Employers
Foreign-owned companies doing business in the United States may benefit from the E visa category reserved for trade and investment. This category provides flexibility and green card convertibility for foreign executives and managers. As well, it ...
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The Economics of H-1Bs: A Call to Strengthen the System
While the federal government holds the monopoly on issuing visas, the United States does not have a monopoly on the best and the brightest minds in cutting edge technology fields. When it works well, the H-1B visa program provides a reasonably ...
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Tips for U.S. Visas: Temporary Workers
The Immigration and Nationality Act provides several categories of nonimmigrant visas for a person who wishes to work temporarily in the United States. There are annual numerical limits on some classifications which are shown in parentheses ...
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Tips for United States Visas: Employment-Based
EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISAS The Immigration and Nationality Act provides a yearly minimum of 140,000 employment-based immigrant visas which are divided into five preference categories. They may require a labor certification from the U.S. Department of ...
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Transfer Of Foreign Employees To The United States (L-1)
The L-1 visa allows Business Executives, Managers and employees with "specialized knowledge" to transfer from a foreign company to a US office, subsidiary, or affiliate. This visa may be used to allow the transfer of key personnel to open a new ...
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Treaty-Trader and Treaty-Investor Visas (E-1/E-2)
Treaties between United States and many countries allow foreign persons to come to the United States to conduct trade (import/export activities) or to manage investments. Unlike the Immigrant Investor visa there is no fixed dollar amount for the ...
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