Finally – the new Form I-9 is here! Click here to download the new Form I-9. Note: the new form is for use only on or after April 3, 2009; until then, keep using the current Form I-9.
What’s the Form I-9 you ask, and what’s all the fuss? All U.S. employers are
The Society for Human Resource Management, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and three other groups filed a lawsuit late last month challenging the legality of an executive order that requires federal contractors to use E-Verify, the federal government’s Web-based system that uses Social Security files to ensure that employees are legal immigrants or
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) last month submitted an interim final rule intended to streamline the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) process. Click here to read the USCIS’ Press Release on the interim final rule.
One result of this new rule will be a new Form I-9, which will be made available sometime in
This week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) is not preempted by the federal (IRCA). Rather, the court held, LAWA falls within the scope of the “savings clause” of IRCA’s express preemption provision as a “licensing law” and is therefore enforceable. A coalition of human rights and
A new I-9 form is now available from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. What’s changed, you might ask? Good question. Nothing substantive, merely the expiration date. Ironically, the Paperwork Reduction Act requires government forms to carry an expiration date, and because the old I-9 form expires June 30, 2008, the USCIS has to
A federal judge in Ohio ruled that an employer’s top executives are subject to a RICO lawsuit for hiring undocumented alien employees. Hager v. ABX Air, Inc., No.2:07-CV-317 (S.D. Ohio Mar. 25, 2008). RICO, the "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act," is usually associated with attempts to bring down mob bosses and the "legitimate businesses"