Effective August 23, 2010 new rules just issued by the Department of Homeland Security on I-9s, a required form to verify employment eligibility for all U.S. workers, must be followed.  Some highlights of the new rules include:
Section 2 of the I-9 form, where the employer records the authorized documents proving employment eligibility, must be completed [...]

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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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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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 As Reported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is issuing Notices of Inspection (NOIs) to 180 businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. The notices alert business owners that ICE will be inspecting their hiring records to determine whether or not they 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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 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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Restaurants (including fast food franchises), Hotels/Motels, Home Based Service Businesses (landscapers, cleaning companies, day care & senior care agencies) and contractors are all prime targets for ICE audits.  We know this because of their high turn-over rates and their historical hiring behaviors.  We also know that we are not the only ones who know this. [...]

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As many of you already know, from our recent post – New I-9 Form Arrives, Expiration Date of 2012  (www.legalemployer.com/blog/?p=23) there is a new I-9 form that all companies should, as a best practice, be using for all new hires.  With this version, the form itself did not change – only the revision and expiration [...]

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