Designing Remote Work Policies with Immigration and Tax Considerations in Mind
As companies contemplate return to work policies, including hybrid, remote and work-from-anywhere arrangements, employers should be aware of immigration and tax considerations. Balancing employee expectations in a competitive labor market with compliance obligations can be complex. In this presentation, our experts will share what you need to know for robust foreign national recruiting that complies with immigration requirements and avoids unintended tax consequences.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how hybrid and remote work policies can complicate immigration compliance.
- Learn how hybrid and remote work can carry various unintended tax consequences.
- Learn steps to stay in immigration compliance while offering flexible work policies that attract skilled workers in a competitive labor market.
Josiah Curtis
Josiah is a Partner in the Boston office of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP where he provides strategic guidance to employers on all facets of the complex US business immigration process. He represents employers in the information technology, energy, insurance, management consulting, and legal industries before the US Department of Labor, US Department of Homeland Security, and US Department of State in addition to providing counsel regarding immigration compliance, program management, and corporate reorganizations. Josiah is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association where he serves on the national Department of Labor Liaison Committee and is a frequent speaker at the local and national levels on business immigration matters.
Josiah is also passionate about giving back to his community and provides pro bono counsel to a number of organizations including Doctors Without Borders and Kids in Need of Defense.
Maria DeLapp
Maria is a Partner and leads operations for the Chicago office of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP. Maria advises domestic and international companies regarding temporary and permanent visas for their foreign national employees.
With over 20 years of employment-based immigration experience, she has counseled clients from a wide range of industries, including IT, manufacturing, agricultural, scientific, engineering and financial services, automotive suppliers, and professional football, baseball, and rugby clubs. Maria has worked with startups, midsize companies, and large multinational corporations to develop and manage their immigration programs and provide individualized guidance to their employees. She has counseled clients on all aspects of USCIS and Consular nonimmigrant and immigrant visa processing, PERM, I-140 immigrant visa petitions of all employment-based categories, and family-based green card applications. Maria has advised clients on employment eligibility verification and compliance issues, including pre-hire inquiries and strategies, E-Verify process, and I-9 audits and policies. She has extensive experience helping her clients manage immigration due diligence during all stages of the M&A transactions, advising clients on impact of corporate reorganizations and workforce reductions to their immigration programs. Maria offers a breadth of experience in analyzing inadmissibility and other complex aspects of employment-based immigration law.
Throughout her career, Maria has been actively involved in pro bono work, assisting the local immigrant communities with DACA, Asylum, and Naturalization applications. She is a native Russian speaker.
Sean Trotman
Sean Trotman has more than 25 years experience advising clients on employment tax, incentive compensation and mobility program policy and tax matters. His clients range from small, privately held companies to some of the largest, most complex organizations in the world. He has served as the lead advisor to many companies in the context of corporate reorganizations, particularly as to the implications for their compensation and incentive plan arrangements. In addition, Sean is the Deloitte Lead Client Service Partner (overseeing all services) for two Fortune 500 companies.
Sean is a sought after speaker at local, national and international learning and development programs, as well as external professional conferences. He has authored a number of articles for various publications, and contributed content to books, on cross-border tax, talent and rewards issues. Sean is member of the Board of British American Business, a pre-eminent transatlantic business organization, for whom he serves on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. He is also actively involved with the Global Equity Organization and was recently appointed as a Fellow of Global Equity for his contributions to the global share plan industry.
Outside of his professional life, Sean holds a second degree blackbelt in Taekwondo (Korean martial art) and also enjoys trail and road biking and long distance running while his knees still allow him (he has run 5 marathons, all outside of the US, since turning 40!).
Sean was born and raised in England and earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Business and French from Aston University. Post graduation, he qualified with the Association of Taxation Technicians in the United Kingdom. Sean has also studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Rouen, France and is fluent in French. Sean has lived in the United States for the last 20 years.