County in Washington to Require E-Verify Use for Contractors

By Thomas Ahearn, ESR NEWS Staff Writer

According to a report on TDN.com, (The Daily News Online), officials in Lewis County, Washington have approved a pledge requiring all contractors hired by the county for $100,000 or above to verify the employment eligibility of their staff through the regime’s E-Verify Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification system.

E-Verify – a emancipated, Internet-based system used to determine if employees are with permission eligible to work in the county – compares the names of staff with their Social Security numbers and verifies in rank on the Employment Eligibility Verification forms (“I-9” forms) employees must fill out against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) databases.

TDN.com reports that Lewis County was already using E-Verify for contractors paid with federal funding, as mandated by a federal ruling, and also that the county auditor recently started using E-Verify to check the citizenship status of new county staff.

But, some critics felt the $100,000 threshold mandating E-Verify usage was too high, saying contractors using illegal staff would still be able to bid up to $99,999 on county projects without having to use the E-Verify Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification system, TDN.com reported.

With over 200,000 employers currently using E-Verify and many believing that E-Verify should be mandatory, E-Verify Designated Agents are helping businesses with in the employment eligibility verification process. Employment Screening Resources (ESR) – a leading national background check provider and authorized E-Verify Designated Agent – can help employers virtually eliminate errors, improve the accuracy of their reporting, protect jobs for authorized staff, and help maintain a legal workforce.

For extra in rank about the E-Verify Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification system, visit http://www.esrcheck.com/formi9.php.

Source:

http://tdn.com/news/disorder-and-regional/article_5087aea2-7e4f-11df-ba97-001cc4c03286.html