SHRM — Legislation requiring employers to use the government’s electronic employment eligibility verification program to ensure that their employees are authorized to work in the U.S. will soon be reintroduced, lawmakers said.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, announced his intention to reintroduce the Legal Workforce Act at a Feb. 4, 2015, House Judiciary Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee hearing, calling it a “common sense approach that will reduce illegal immigration and save jobs for American workers and legal workers.”
The previous version of the bill was reported out of the House Judiciary Committee in December 2014 but was never called for a vote in front of the full House of Representatives. The proposal would have required employers to attest that their workers are authorized to work in the country via the E-Verify system.
The E-Verify program is an Internet-based system that allows employers to electronically check an employee’s I-9 form against government records to confirm that the person is eligible to work in the U.S. The program is voluntary at the federal level, though some states require certain employers to use it. Nearly 575,000 employers are currently signed up to use E-Verify and the agency that administers it has testified that the program confirms applicants’ work eligibility 99.7 percent of the time.
“One way to make sure we discourage illegal immigration in the future is to prevent unlawful immigrants from getting jobs in the U.S. Requiring the use of E-Verify by all employers across the country will help do just that,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who co-sponsored the previous legislation.
The bill would phase-in E-Verify use in six-month increments beginning with the largest U.S. businesses and mandate that all employers use the system within two years of enactment.
The legislation raises penalties for employers who don’t comply with E-Verify requirements, allows employers to use E-Verify prior to hiring an applicant, provides a safe harbor for employers who use the system in good faith, and seeks to combat identity theft by requiring agencies to “lock” Social Security numbers suspected of being compromised and notify applicants of any “unusual multiple use.”
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The issue of E-Verify has been around for quite awhile now and why it hasn’t been passed is because corporate America doesn’t want it to happen. Americans need to STOP SHOPPING! ALL you’re doing is buying foreign goods anyway.
being able to use e-verify prior to hiring is a good move. It relieves the employer of the cost of paying an employee while ID issues are sorted out. Also locking SSN’s for dual use will hopefully get some justice for those who have their SSN’s used by others to gain employment, only to have IRS go after the true holder of the SSN for unreported wages.
E-verify is used by many of the DYI stores, as well as fast food restaurants. Unfortunately, not all stores in a chain are required to use it. It is up to the corp. management if a branch will enroll as a user. Pay attention and shop where it is used and let them know you appreciate the use of the program.
E-VERIFY needs to be “MANDATORY”. However, it’s obvious that “our (CORRUPTED) leaders” .. democrats/liberals and republicans/conservatives .. all of these who – like prostitutes – are themselves deep in the pockets of “corporate America”; they’d much rather vote to keep the USA in a state of war .. than do what’s best for the citizens of our Nation.
This has always been a no brainer, even leftards can get it ….protecting the American worker from these illegal scabs Should be priority number1.