E-verify
Arizona Senate Passes Tough Immigration Bill That Includes Stricter Rules on E-Verify Usage
By admin at 20 April, 2010, 10:08 am
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer
The Arizona senate has passed a controversial bill that – along with requiring law enforcement officers to question anyone that they have reason to believe might be in the country illegally – would direct employers to keep verification records of employee work eligibility through the government’s E-Verify electronic eligibility verification [...]
New DHS Initiative Targets E-Verify Misuse and Discrimination by Employers
By admin at 29 March, 2010, 1:32 pm
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 easier to investigate E-Verify misuse and discrimination by participating employers.
Under the DHS [...]
Report Finds E-Verify Fails to Catch Over Half of Illegal Workers Committing Identity Theft and Fraud
By admin at 2 March, 2010, 10:11 pm
A research company has found that E-Verify – the employment eligibility verification system that the U. S. government would like employers to use to help control illegal immigration – has failed to catch over half of the number of illegal workers it checks.
According to Westat, a research company evaluating the system for the Department of [...]
6. E-Verify and other government background check requirements
By admin at 18 January, 2010, 1:58 am
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Seven: E-Verify and other government background check requirements will grow
The government’s efforts to require employers to verify eligibly for employment gathered additional steam when the rules for the use of E-verify for federal contractors finally went into effect in 2009 after a number of false starts. The E-verify system utilizes databases [...]