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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Responsible business executives and HR managers must take affirmative steps to ensure that their own verification procedures, as well as those of the contractors they use, are in order, and remain vigilant for any signs of non-compliance.  This will help to minimize their risk and avoid costly fines, embarrassing PR and in some cases criminal [...]

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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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For the past couple of months many businesses have spent considerable time getting their tax documents in order for fear of an audit by the IRS.  Now that taxes are filed many businesses are taking the time to ensure that their I-9 Forms are in order for fear of an audit from ICE (Immigration Customs [...]

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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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If you are an employer in the United States, you could be breaking the law and not even know it. Under federal law every employer, no matter how big or small, must have an I-9 form on file for every employee within 3 days of being hired if the employee was hired after 1986.  The [...]

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News is spreading like wild fire about the recent ICE announcement regarding targeting the next 1,000 businesses for I-9 Compliance.  The Wall Street Journal, Arizona Daily Star, Chicago Public Radio, Denver Business Journal, San Antonio Express and countless others all jumped on the story.
Many focused in on the reported fines that companies will have to [...]

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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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