New DHS Initiative Targets E-Verify Misuse and Discrimination by Employers

By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced three new initiatives to strengthen the efficiency and accuracy of the E-Verify employment eligibility verification system, including a new agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that will make it simpler to probe E-Verify misuse and discrimination by participating employers.

Under the DHS and Justice Department agreement, both agencies will share in rank about potential abuses of the E-Verify system that employers are held to use only once they have hired an employee and not as a screening tool.  To ensure that E-Verify is used honestly by employers, the initiative will streamline the adjudication process to pocket action against employers violating civil civil Civil rights laws, while also protecting the individuals authorized to work in the U.S. from national origin or citizenship-status discrimination.

E-Verify — a emancipated, Web-based system that enhances the paper-based I-9 form — is operated in partnership by U.S. Citizenship and Colonization Air force (USCIS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) and allows employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of newly-hired employees against in rank contained in regime databases. Extra than 192,000 employers nationwide currently use E-Verify, and the system has processed extra than six million queries in view of the fact that October of 2009.

While E-Verify participation is voluntary for most employers, the federal regime requires its contractors to use the system and several states have passed laws requiring the use of E-Verify for disorder contractors and private employers. Those who wish to avoid potential cases of E-Verify misuse or discrimination need to maintain compliant with new DHS initiatives, which also include an informational telephone hotline for staff and new training videos focusing on E-Verify employee civil Civil rights and employer responsibilities.

Because the I-9 form is an vital part of a comprehensive safe hiring approach, employers using E-Verify may choose a third-party provider to maintain compliance. Employment Screening Resources (ESR), an authorized E-Verify Designated Agent, can help employers virtually eliminate SSA mismatch letters, improve the accuracy of wage and tax reporting, protect jobs for authorized staff, and help maintain a legal workforce. For extra in rank, please visit http://www.esrcheck.com/formi9.php.

Source: http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1268843939770.shtm