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On May 27, the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a regulation repealing a Trump-era rule known as the SUNSET rule. The SUNSET rule would have attached sunset provisions, which are expiration dates, to almost 18,000 existing HHS regulations. The idea was that these rules should have to be reviewed about once every decade to determine whether they are negatively affecting small businesses. If they aren’t reviewed, they expire. It’s an approach that is popular in about one-third of U.S. states as well as numerous countries around the world, but the Biden administration has dec...

Tax Tidbit - Year-End Legislative To-Dos. Washington has been consumed by President Joe Biden’s twin legislative vehicles: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Puerto Rico House of Representatives has introduced House Bill 3, which seeks to amend and repeal certain sections of the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act of 2017, also known as the 2017 Puerto Rico Labor Reform. The House held a Public Session for Final Consideration on April 27, 2021 where it sought input from various organizations on how the proposed House Bill 3 should be amended and how it should alter the 2017 Labor Reform. WHAT IS THE 2017 PUERTO RICO LABOR REFORM? The 2017 Labor Reform was passed with the goal of...

Prohibit Regulatory Actions on USCIS Forms USCIS should amend its regulations to stop automatically incorporating all form instruction changes into its regulations, bypassing notice and public comment procedures. USCIS requires employers and applicants for immigration benefits to use forms that it creates to collect information. 1 Along with these forms, USCIS publishes detailed instructions that explain to applicants how they must fill out the form and the types of information or evidence that must be provided. USCIS's regulations currently assert that all form instruction changes are incorp...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The days may be numbered for Puerto Rico’s 2017 employment reform law. Legislators in the House of Representatives have approved a bill that would repeal or modify parts of the current law. Shortly after being sworn in, members of the House introduced House Bill 3 (HB 3) to repeal the Labor Transformation and Flexibility Act of 2017, commonly referred to as the Employment Law Reform. The 2017 act brought sweeping changes to Puerto Rico employment laws. After four months and substantial amendments, HB 3 was approved by the House on...