...A Timely Analysis of Legal Developments ASAP Recent USCIS Memo on Employer-Employee Relationship Requirements for H-1B Visa Petitions: Regulation by Memorandum? By Jorge Lopez, Shin-I Lowe and Neil Grindstaff ® In This Issue: March 2010 The USCIS recently issued a guidance memo to its adjudication officers, “Determining Employer-Employee Relationship for Adjudication of H-1B Petitions, Including Third Party Site Placements.” The Memo clarifies what constitutes a valid employer-employee relationship, in the context of petitions for H-1B visas, which are commonly used by IT staffing agencies and consulting groups for placing skilled workers at third-party worksites. Donald Neufeld, Associate Director or Service Center Operations for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) recently issued a guidance memo to its adjudication officers, “Determining Employer-Employee Relationship for Adjudication of H-1B Petitions, Including Third Party Site Placements” (“Neufeld Memo” or “Memo”). The Memo clarifies what constitutes a valid employer-employee relationship, in the context of petitions for H-1B visas, which are commonly used by IT staffing agencies and consulting groups for placing skilled workers at third-party worksites.1 On February 18, the USCIS held a “Collaboration Session” in Washington, D.C., to address the growing concerns about the implications of the Neufeld Memo. Approximately 500 people (400 via teleconference) attended the two-hour session...
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...to make appropriate changes as needed and as discussed in class. | | | Planning | | 6 | Yes | GA-2 | No | 3.Draft short staffing requirements memo | | | Planning | | 37 | Yes | Varies | Yes | Note you do not need to search for audit programs – Refer to Blackboard for Audit Program Templates that are included with each audit area. You will need to reference and sign off each audit step as required (note that all audit steps provided in the audit program may not be needed.) | | | Planning | | 38 | Yes | GA-3 | Yes | Draft workpaper for the notes and information obtained from the 2011/2012 minutes (as discussed in class) | | | Planning | | 42 | Yes | A-1, A-2 etc | Yes | Trial Balance numbers for 2011 and 2010 9pages 43-44 are already input into the excel worksheets to use as a trial balance template | | | Planning | | 45 | Yes | A-1,A-2 etc | Yes | Use excel trial balance worksheets to calculate analytics as we demonstrated in class. You must complete items 1a and b. Financial Statement and changes and financial ratios Also, we completed item 2 - using items {a}–{j} but not in memo form – so you will need to include this info also | | | Planning | | 45 | No | N/A | N/A | 1c – You will not need to compare numbers to Nike and Reebok | | | Planning | | 46 | Yes | GA-5 | No | Item 1.2. only You will need to document (prepare memo) for materiality. | | | | | | | | | | | | Section | | Page | To Do – Yes/No | WP Reference | Blackboard...
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...Communication channels Paper HCS/320 October 4, 2011 Communication channels, just as formal and informal, are significant in every business. When reading about the channels, process systems, communication surroundings, and hierarchies, one has a habit of overseeing the significance of what is being communicated or stated. All businesses are blinded with each other by a typical volume understanding and support. These connections are upheld by the course of distributing material and response. The achievement of every business is the method of the communication. Communication is divided into two portions one being the message and the channel it is communicated on. For instance, you may want to communicate regarding a state of emotion, such as being excited. One may communicate this through an assortment of “channels”. Like; sending an e-mail, writing a letter, making a phone call, communicate it non-verbally or verbally, and etc., of how enthusiastic one may be. Information dissemination is used by the government to aid society to locate providers that they require and to request appropriate health service as well. Example, if echolalia was found information dissemination will be suitable to inform the public what is...
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...scope of the problem. 2. Select a Method of Solution- Find research from either primary, secondary or both. 3. Collect/organize data and document sources-avoid too small samples, biased, too much info, not representative, gathering not enough info 4. Arrive at answer (2) Secondary Research- information that has already been reported by others Primary Research- Firsthand data such as observational studies, experimental research (taking 2 equal samples and adding a variable to 1.), Normative Studies (surveys, questionnaires,) or Sampling (not taking 100% of population). All research needs to be valid and reliable. (3) Secondary: Don’t collect too much secondary data. Be concise. Read articles rapidly, from memory list main points, review the article to double check. Use either direct quotation or paraphrasing. Primary: Surveys should be easy to follow, logical sequence, appealing, single answer, provide all of the above in MC, avoid threating questions. Mail- Inexpensive, reach wide #, allows anonymity---could get low response rate, not good for detailed info Personal Interviews-in depth, personal contact----very time consuming Telephone/Email-inexpensive, rapid response, personal contact.—must be short, might exclude respondents without phones (4) Evaluate for usefulness, reduce the useful info through organization of notes and data analyisis, combine like info into tables, charts, graphs, etc, and then report the rest in written form. Do not: make results conform to a...
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...PART A: Interoffice Memorandum Phoenix Advertising - Interoffice Memorandum DATE: July 24, 2014 TO: Executive Team FROM: _________________, Vice President of HRM SUBJECT: Roanoke, VA Branch – Update In recent weeks, I have received few complaints from few of our top clients in the Virginia region. The quality of work that comes from Roanoke, Virginia branch is affecting the Phoenix branch in a very negative way. For some reason, in the past three months, we have lost the key personnel which that have had been with the company for more than five years. This is why the work quality sharply declined and what followed next - the complaints from the clients. What is scaring me even more is that three of our top graphic designers and four of the copywriters are threatening to leave if we do not improve the way we handle new accounts without evaluating the current workload. We must address this issue as it is costing our company’s valued staff and profits. Robert Wright – Please contact the President of Word Company to find out what the problem is and how we can fix it. Susan Smith – Please call a meeting your graphic design team to find out why the quality of work is declining. Also, Robert and Susan, please evaluate the new client list to see if there is a need to shift some of the work to other branches in the short term. Please send me a full report by August 8, 2014 via email. It is very essential that we maintain a positive and professional relationship...
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...decisions could affect the PD. Because there is no one single individual to look to as being the defendant, you must look to those individuals who appear to represent the organization, can bind the organization by their decisions, has [sic] a leadership position would be someone that one would look to for answers. She should have gotten Bob’s permission to speak with Carl. Although Patty asked Ann to talk with Carl, Ann cannot blindly follow the requests of her client if the requests would be illegal or aid or further an illegal act or if they would violate an ethical rule. A duty of competence is not outweighed by her duty of fairness & dignity to the court and her adversary. 2. Ann’s ethical obligations with respect to the Chief’s memo...
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...change to the employees, and explain why you selected these channels. Communication Channels | Rationale to your selection | Initial Meeting | -Allow everyone introduce themselves -Build some trust and rapport-Networking-Will be face-to-face-Will be a onetime meeting | Project Meeting | -Meeting will be weekly-Face-to-Face or Conference Call-Review the status with the team | Project solutions Meeting | -Meeting will occur as needed-Discuss project barriers and solutions-Develop and implement of new programs or projects-Will be face-to-face | Monthly Status Meeting | -Will be face-to-face or conference call-Report the status to upper management-Well occur monthly | Monthly Reports Meeting | -Channel will be thru email, fax, or memos-Will go over reports such as; cost, issues, and progress | 2. Identify the potential barriers to effective communication and strategies for overcoming the barriers. Potential Communication Barriers | Strategies to Overcoming Barriers | Information Overload | -Listed above are a lot of meetings and employees will get overwhelmed with information that is important? - A solution for this is to have an employee take notes for each department and send them in an email for referencing. | Communication Apprehension | -Some employees may not be comfortable in a face-to-face or with written information. -A solution for this barrier would be to have a mixture of face-to-face, conference calls, and emails. This will allow for everyone...
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...The Ganssle Group logo In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses. - Robert Byrnes Seminars Newsletter Videos Tool & Book Reviews Special Reports Articles Random Rants Computer Humor Contact/Search Memo To My Boss The logo for The Embedded Muse For novel ideas about building embedded systems (both hardware and firmware), join the 25,000+ engineers who subscribe to The Embedded Muse, a free biweekly newsletter. The Muse has no hype, no vendor PR. It takes just a few seconds (just enter your email, which is shared with absolutely no one) to subscribe. By Jack Ganssle Published in Embedded Systems Programming, November, 2001 MEMO To: Bob Smith, CEO From: Jake Schmidt Attch: resig.doc Dear Bob, I wanted to respond to your memo of the 16th. Circulated as it was to seemingly half the company I feel we developers are now operating under an insurmountable stigma. Yes, we all know the product shipped late. Very late. You want to know why the schedule was missed so badly, and want an action plan to assure this problem will never reoccur. I was just one of many developers on the project. Others on the team will probably respond with apologetic platitudes. However, you'll note my resignation is attached so I feel no pressure to paper over the very real problems with politically-correct but worthless suggestions. Let me assure you, that, contrary to your strongly-stated opinion, we were not "spending half...
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...COM 3150 Midterm chapter 1-7 Assignments: 2 memos 4 business letters 1 report 5 grammar quizzes in class 1 grammar exam 2 textbook exams 1 business presentation (speech) Tonight Memos direct pattern frontloading (when why how) Listen (When why) Parallelism plain language business text format Subject good Memo- internal communication Letter- External Subject line- Important to be extensively informative. Direct- Main idea first details later (good news, neural news)- Audience will be happy to neutral Indirect- Details first, main idea later (bad news, persuasion)- Audience is hostile to uninterested Frontloading- getting to the purpose in the first sentence. The body: organize information and explanations logically. use numbered and bulleted list consider headings Parallelism-Items in the list need the same grammatical structure. Goodwill- what you put in the message to maintain the relationship. In hard copy memos: No opening or closing. Sign your initials at the end of the FROM line. Thursday May 16th Qualities if Bus waiting -Main English -Audience centered -positive Quiz 1 -Active vs. passive voice -subject verb agreement Memo 2 -tables -APA documentation First person sing I, me, my, mine, myself We, us our, ours, ourselves Second person you, your, yours, yourselves 1. Use the you attitude 2. Reader benefits (affordable, meets your needs) You attitude exercise on Blackboard ...
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...BUSN Chapter 2 Three step writing process Planning, Writing, and Completing your message The stage during which you step back to see whether you have expressed your idea? Completing The primary Audience for your message is made up of? The key decision makers The chief advantage of oral communication is? opportunity for immediate feedback In part media richness refers to? A medium's ability to facilitate feedback The richest communication medium Face to face conversation For persuasive messages, the best approach is to? Emphasize how your audience will benefit A euphemism is a word or phrase that is? A milder term for one with a negotive connotations The most common tone for a business message is? conversational Words such as nevertheless, however, and therefore? Are useful for making transitions The main task in completing a business message consist of? revising, proofreading, and producing When reviewing your document for content, you should be concerned with? The accuracy and relevance of the information For general business messages, your writing should be geared toward readers at the? 8th to 11th grage level Using space in a document? provides contrast Justified type is type that? Set flush on the left and flush on the right When making a routine request, you begin with? A clear statement of the main idea or request When making a request, you should? Assume the reader will...
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...S/390 , ® ® ® AS/400 , OS/390 , and OS/400 are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. ORACLE is a registered trademark of ORACLE Corporation. INFORMIX -OnLine for SAP and Informix Dynamic Server Informix Software Incorporated. ® ® ® ® ® ® TM ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® are registered trademarks of UNIX , X/Open , OSF/1 , and Motif are registered trademarks of the Open Group. HTML, DHTML, XML, XHTML are trademarks or registered trademarks of W3C , World Wide Web Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JAVA is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. JAVASCRIPT is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc., used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape. SAP, SAP Logo, R/2, RIVA, R/3, ABAP, SAP ArchiveLink, SAP Business Workflow, WebFlow, SAP EarlyWatch, BAPI, SAPPHIRE, Management Cockpit, mySAP.com Logo and mySAP.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. All other products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ® ® ® 2 April 2001 SAP AG Sales and Distribution (SD) Icons Icon Meaning Caution...
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...NT-1430 Unit 2 Lab Lab Objectives * Perform basic system administration tasks * Creating users * Setting user passwords * Group membership and management * Working with the Linux filesystem structure * Creating files, directories * Commands, options, arguments * Copying files, moving/renaming files, deleting files * File and directory permissions Lab 1 Record your answers in the spaces provided. 1. Start your virtual machine 2. Log into the system as root with the password you specified last week 3. Create a user account for yourself with the following convention: [First Initial][Last Name] Example: John Doe would be jdoe a. Be careful, as Linux is a case-sensitive OS. Jdoe != jdoe b. Record the command used: __________________________________________________ 4. Set a password for your newly created account. Record the command used. ____________________________________________ 5. Create and set passwords for the following users: c. mark d. max 6. Log out of root and log back in as your newly created account 7. Run the following commands in sequence, and then report your findings: e. ls f. ls –a g. ls –l h. ls –al 8. Run the following commands and report your results. What is different about step 6? i. ls /tmp j. ls –a /tmp k. ls –l /tmp l. ls –al /tmp 9. Which command will display your present...
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...number is 10259. 2. Who is the provider of Sofia Yakaria Pallares? What credentials does her provider have? Ruth Ann Raymond is the patient’s provider. Ruth Ann Raymond has her MD license. 3. What patient was seen on 11/05/2010? What is the patient’s date of birth? John Peters with a date of birth 05/25/1965 was seen on 11/058/2010. 4. What date and time did patient #1298 visit the doctor’s office? What is the patient’s name and date of birth? Lucy Ann Johnson, date of birth 06/12/1975 visit the doctor’s office on 06/04/2011 at 17:15 (5:15pm). 5. What patient lives in 1704 N. Atlantic Ave Ontario, AZ 85320? What is its encounter number? John Peters lives at 1704 N. Atlantic Ave Ontario, AZ 85320. His encounter number is 111218. Patient Info Table Pat# Last_Name First_Name Middle_Name Birthdate 10259 Pallares Sofia Yakaria 9/18/1985 30528 Peters John 5/25/1965 1298 Johnson Lucy Ann 6/12/1975 Patient Address Table Pat# Address City State Zip 10259 705 E. Woodlawn St. Peoria CA 91762 30528 1704 N. Atlantic Ave Ontario AZ 85320 1298 5150 W. Eugie St. Glendale NY 95627 Patient Visits Table Pat# Encounter_# Date Time Provider_# 10259 100876 20111221 10:00 2 30528 111218 20101105 11:30 3 1298 120548 20110604 17:15 1 Provider Info Table Provider# Last_Name First_Name Middle_Name Credentials 1 Lee Sam MD 2 Raymond...
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...the glitches 2. Identify Control Issues: * Understaffing people are overworked, may get sloppy * R: Hire more staff * Lack of segregation of duties, bookkeeper does the bank rec and A/R ledger * R: Get someone else to do one of those duties * Mismatch b/w what’s shipped and what’s recorded as revenue since sales reported based on what they are supposed (when order is confirmed for shipment) but Louis goes down to the shipping department and adds a few more COGS is correct but revenue is not * R: Base revenues on actual quantities shipped * Year end cut-off error – Revenue: Takes 3 weeks to get the orders out but actg department records sales based orders * R: System is changed so that revenue is recorded only when shipment is confirmed, send shipping log to the actg department so they know 3. Policy compliance * Costs capitalized to inventory * IPI’s accounting policies state that only the rental cost associated with production should be inventoried. * Revenue not recognized upon shipment 4. Bonus: * Owner’s bias * Criteria b) Number of Units @ $65/unit Validate the revenue in dollars as well as quantity * Shipping logs normalize them for what the customers really wanted * Select a sample of quantity shipping and compare them to POs * $65/unit:...
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...SAMPLE FORMAT FOR TASK 1 PART A *Course Mentor Note on the interpretation/application of the Taskstream Instructions: According to the instructions in Taskstream, you may conclude the task is asking you to include 3 components for Part A of Task 1 which are: 1. Six of seven characteristics 2. Advantages and disadvantages for each business organization 3. Brief description for each business organization But to clarify what is actually required, you only need to describe the 6 of 7 characteristics; you don’t need to list Disadvantages/Advantages nor a brief description. The reason: 1) the info for your advantages/disadvantages/brief description and bullet list essentially is the same so you'd see redundant work and 2) if you look at the rubric for Task 1, the only metric is that you have 6 of 7 characteristics for each business organization - there is no metric for brief description nor advantages/disadvantages. Thus, regarding the format for Task 1 Part A for LIT1, the Bullet/Listing approach (mentioned in the Task 1 Instructions) is below, which basically is you’ll describe each characteristic in usually about 1-2 sentences then move on. Example of how to apply this format: SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP: • LIABILITY – (1-2 Sentence Description) • INCOME TAXES – (1-2 Sentence Description) • LONGEVITY/CONTINUITY – (1-2 Sentence Description) • CONTROL – (1-2 Sentence Description) • PROFIT RETENTION – (1-2 Sentence Description) • LOCATION...
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