On Friday, August 31, a federal district court judge granted a temporary restraining order placing a hold on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new Social Security No-Match regulations.  The final regulations were scheduled to take effect in September.  The ruling puts a hold on the federal government’s plan to start sending out No-Match Letters.

The AFL-CIO, ACLU, National Immigration Law Center, and a group of labor unions filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the No-Match regulations.  The order is scheduled to remain in effect until October 1, when another judge will consider whether to grant an injunction preventing implementation of the rule until trial.

The 2007 Iowa Employment Conference will be held on November 7 at the Cedar Rapids Marriott on Collins Road NE. from 8:15 a.m. until 4 p.m.  This one-day premier conference features powerful and informative concurrent sessions presented by leading human resource and training consultants, attorneys and benefit consultants on the most critical employment issues likely to affect Iowa employers in 2008.  During each concurrent session attendees will participate in lively discussions of practical approaches and new thinking on common employment problems, including:

In a recent FMLA case, an employee sued the human resource manager and a line supervisor for violation of the FMLA her employment was terminated while she was on leave.  The HR manager and the supervisor argued that they lacked the requisite control over the employee's FMLA leave to be liable and that they did not exercise managerial authority over the employee; nor did they play any role in the decision whether the employee should be granted FMLA leave (she was) or nor did they make the decision to reorganize her department.

Employers with 100 or more employees (and covered government contractors/subcontractors with 50 or more employees) are required to file an annually EEO-1 Report with the EEOC.  The EEO-1 form due September 30, 2007, will differ from the old form in two respects: