Slowly but surely, E-Verify is becoming the not-so-voluntary system of choice for verifying new hires’ eligibility to work in the United States. Regardless of whether or not you believe the system is “fast, free, and easy” or “too flawed to be mandatory,” the reality is that many employers are required to use E-Verify through an [...]
[Editor's Note: today's blog is courtesy of Wendy Padilla-Madden from Balch & Bingham LLP.] Today, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange announced that he has established a special webpage for providing updates and information on Alabama’s new immigration law, Act No. 2011-535, which is widely considered to be the toughest in the nation. Signed into law [...]
Over this past weekend, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law Assembly Bill 1236 “the Employment Acceleration Act of 2011,” which effectively nullifies the growing patchwork of E-Verify laws, requirements and ordinances which have sprouted up all over the state during the past several years. Under the new law, neither the state of California [...]
Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it is now permitting employers in the State of South Carolina to disclose information received from E-Verify to the South Carolina Department of Labor as required by the state’s 2008 immigration law. Earlier this year, the state had suspended all E-Verify investigations after several employers complained [...]
[Editor's Note: today's blog is courtesy of Dawn Lurie and Kevin Lashus of Greenberg Traurig] Governor Rick Scott wasted no time in making the state of Florida the fourteenth in the nation to have a mandatory E-Verify requirement. Only minutes after being sworn in, the Governor signed his second executive order of the day-the first created [...]
