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Obama’s Jobs Bill Moves to Congress

“The purpose of the American Jobs Act of 2011 is simple—put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans,” the president said in a letter to Congress. “And it will do so without adding a dime to the deficit.” President Barack Obama, seeking to recapture the promise of […]

Document Abuse in I-9: Common Mistakes

The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, is responsible for enforcing the anti-discrimination provisions of our nation’s immigration law.  The OSC enforcement involves action based on complaints filed, and OSC also initiates independent investigations based on information developed during individual charge investigations, or leads provided by […]

House Judiciary Committee Passes Lamar Smith’s E-Verify Bill

A House committee Wednesday approved a bill to require that every business in the country use the E-Verify system to determine if prospective hires are authorized workers or undocumented immigrants. The House Judiciary Committee vote followed two days of debate in two different weeks and was split along party lines, with 13 Democrats opposing and all […]

SHRM Seeks Action to Improve Employment Verification

In a letter to a key legislator, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is urging Congress to pass a law to improve the federal government’s electronic employment verification system. SHRM has long advocated for a truly electronic federal system that provides U.S. employers with a reliable method to confirm the work eligibility of potential […]

Mandatory E-Verify Returns to Minnesota

The state of Minnesota is once again requiring its big contractors to verify the legal right of their employees to work in the United States by using the E-Verify electronic employment eligibility verification system that checks information from new hires against federal databases of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA). Tim […]

E-Verify Best Practices

Of the 17 states with E-Verify mandates in place today, the following eight states require employers, both public and private, to participate in E-Verify depending on the number of employees: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. While the remaining states limit mandatory E-Verify participation to public employers or contractors, it […]