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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Visas For Foreign Technical Workers

Maryland has many computer, biotechnical and "high tech" oriented businesses, a number of which have trouble recruiting qualified technical professionals, in part because U.S. colleges do not produce enough graduates to meet demand. These businesses ...
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Employment-Based Immigrant Visas

Immigrant visas are available to certain foreign workers who obtain a certificate from the U.S. Department of Labor indicating the intended employment will not have an adverse effect on the U.S. workers already employed. This is known as "Labor ...
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Annual Cap On H-1B Visas Temporarily Increased

On October 21, 1998, Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA). This Act is a direct result of the increased need for high-tech employees to remedy labor shortages that are affecting American competitiveness ...
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Business & Immigration Report: Winter 1997

Most new proposals damaging to businesses were defeated, but drastic penalties for errors in maintaining immigration status were enacted. The 1996 Congress considered proposals for sweeping changes to the immigration laws, many of which ...
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Business Immigration Horizon: New H-1B Law Spells Relief- And Paperwork

At the eleventh hour, Congress passed the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998, better known as the H-1B bill. The law increases the annual cap on H-1B visas for temporary skilled personnel from the 65,000 cap used in ...
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Business Immigration Horizon, Spring 1999

The Big PictureApproximately 25 million temporary visas are issued annually as follows:Tourists 19.1 MillionBusinessVisitors 3.88 Million Students & Exchange Visitors635,000 Visas227,000Visas139,000 Visas140,000The ratio of temporary visas to ...
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Business Immigration Horizon: The Big Pictures

Business immigration is a small component of the annual influx of foreign nationals to the United States. Currently, it is only 17.6% of the total.A new fiscal year has just begun with the INS. On October 1, 1998, the new annual allotment of H-1B ...
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Business Immigration to the United States

Current U.S. immigration law allows people who have skills and talents needed in the United States to be admitted to the United States to work on a temporary or permanent basis. This paper provides a basic overview of the current employment-based ...
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California’s New “Family Sick Leave” Law (Client Alert: September 1999)

-- The New Requirements-- Issues Raised -- Remedies -- Employer Options -- Assembly Bill No. 109 Beginning January 1, 2000, every employer in California that provides paid sick leave to employees normally will be required to permit employees to use ...
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Cash Balance Plan Basics

This outline is a publication of Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP and Jan A. Steinhour, and should not be construed as legal advice or legal opinion on any specific facts or circumstances. The contents are intended for general information purposes ...
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