Legal Employer, Inc., the leader in I-9 third party audits and I-9 and E-Verify education is offering free I-9 webinars as part of a virtual Road Show  entitled – I-9 – What You Need to Know.
 
The objective of the hour long webinar is to educate business owners, HR professionals, I-9 Administrators, sub-contractors and general [...]

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As the official start of summer approaches many companies may slow down just a bit as employees take vacations over the next couple of months.  Legal Employer encourages you to use this time to get your “I-9 House” in order.  Summer can be a great time for human resource professionals to make the time to [...]

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Many employers hear about E-Verify and some have a clear understanding of what this Federal program does, but most don’t think it concerns them – they are mistaken.  The Federal government already requires employers with federal contracts to use E-Verify for any employee assigned to the contract.  It is essential that employers take note of [...]

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With Arizona’s new law to crack down on illegal immigration many are crying foul and demanding that the Federal Government take charge.  Common sense tells us that the Federal Government now has a stronger incentive to increase their efforts to address illegal immigration.  
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) currently targets illegal immigration by focusing on U.S. [...]

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DHS makes it very clear as to what fines await employers who are found to have missing I-9 forms or I-9 forms with mistakes – even those that many would consider “honest” mistakes.  Below are recommended penalties for noncompliance as well as guidance on how investigators should enhance the assessed fine. The recommended penalties are [...]

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The “second wave” of ICE’s crackdown on employers was no surprise to nearly all of the Legal Employer clients who brought us on board to conduct our own internal I-9 audit of their I-9 forms.  They knew that ICE would be back again and back with a vengeance.  They didn’t even flinch when ICE announced [...]

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 Here is an interesting report which ran on Raleigh North Carolina’s WRAL.  The story is by Bruce Mildwurf
Raleigh, N.C. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s latest estimate on the number of illegal immigrants in the country is anywhere from 12 million to 20 million, with a suspected 350,000 in North Carolina.
The Bush administration tried to [...]

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Another municipality votes to require the use of the E-Verify system for their city’s contracted work. Here is their press release.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 6, 2009
As the current recession forces job reductions and boosts demand for existing jobs, Pierce County will now have a tool to ensure that those who work for the county are lawfully [...]

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In some of the phone calls we field we often find stressed HR Managers and employers who are angry about having to ensure that they have an air tight I-9 Compliance plan and forms.  They see I-9 Compliance and the use of the E-Verify system as unnecessary paper-work and a waste of time.  They don’t [...]

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The rules are clear – each Federal Contractor who uses the E-Verify system must take an E-Verify tutorial or a refresher tutorial and pass a mastery test to learn how to properly handle E-Verify results before a company can use the E-Verify system.  
Using a DHS approved Designated Agent, like Legal Employer, eliminates this requirement, [...]

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