E-Verify & I-9 News

E-Verify: Thinking about taking the plunge?

Guest Blogger — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:27:05 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post is brought to you by guest blogger Katie Nokes Minervino, Associate Attorney in the Immigration Group at Pierce Atwood LLP. Katie assists employers and employees in employment authorization needs and provides clients with support and guidance on employment verification requirements, best practices, and audit response.] E-Verify is the federal government’s current [...]

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Employers Must Bargain with Union to Voluntarily Implement E-Verify

Guest Blogger — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:42:23 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post is brought to you by guest blogger Bruce Buchanan, an immigration attorney in the Nashville, TN office of Siskind Susser PC.] In a case where immigration law and labor law intersected, Pacific Steel Casting Company (Pacific Steel) reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concerning its obligations to [...]

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ICE Reveals 3000 Employer Audits Coming per Year, 500 Every 2 Months

dbiewener — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:47:44 PDT

On April 20th, 2012, ICE Director John Morton warned that ICE will conduct 3,000 I-9 inspections this year, and that this number will remain the same or climb higher in the years to come. This planned number for ICE was confirmed by Bill Riley, former Special Agent with both the INS and ICE for 20 [...]

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Electronic Form I-9 Best Practices for Large Retailers

Guest Blogger — Fri, 04 May 2012 10:00:56 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post was written by our guest blogger Melinda McAfee, Esq., Vice President – Legal, Abercrombie & Fitch, Tracker I-9 client since 2010.] Nothing tests your company’s best practices like an ICE audit. Any company that has been through a large scale ICE audit will come out of the experience with lessons learned. [...]

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Notes from the Worksite Compliance Symposium on I-9 Best Practices

dbiewener — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:04:10 PDT

Tracker participated in the Second Annual Worksite Immigration Compliance Symposium which took place at Stanford Law School’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance on April 20th, 2012. This Symposium featured many of the top authorities and influencers in Form I-9 worksite compliance, for an insightful day of panel discussions on best practices in compliance and auditing, [...]

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ICE Fines Company $2 Million

Guest Blogger — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:00:17 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post is brought to you by guest blogger Bruce Buchanan, an immigration attorney in the Nashville, TN office of Siskind Susser PC.] Atrium Companies, the owner of Champion Windows and Advanced Containment Systems, agreed to settle a case with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) for $2 million as a result of a [...]

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OSC Continues to Pursue Companies Who Discriminate on the Basis of Immigration Status

Guest Blogger — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:22:54 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post is brought to you by guest blogger Bruce Buchanan, an immigration attorney in the Nashville, TN office of Siskind Susser PC.] March was a busy month for the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, a division of the Department of Justice. It settled cases against Onward Healthcare, [...]

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OCAHO and ICE Continue to Disagree on Size of Penalties for I-9 Violations

Guest Blogger — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:09:48 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post is brought to you by guest blogger Bruce Buchanan, an immigration attorney in the Nashville, TN office of Siskind Susser PC.] Recent decisions of the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) continue to demonstrate Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and OCAHO strongly disagree on the appropriate level of penalties [...]

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U.S. Citizenship & Immigration (USCIS) Publishes New, Proposed Form I-9

Guest Blogger — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:49:05 PDT

[Editor’s Note: today’s post was written by Delisa J. Futch, a Partner in Foster Quan LLP Austin office and past Vice President for Conference Planning and Publications for the State Bar of Texas Immigration and Nationality Law Section. This article was originally published in Foster Quan Immigration in the News.] On March 27, 2012, U.S. [...]

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US Dept. of Justice Settles I-9 Overdocumentation Claim Against Ross Stores Inc.

dbiewener — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:49:40 PDT

On March 23rd, 2012, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it reached an agreement with Ross Stores Inc ., who will pay more than $17,000 to settle a claim that the company had engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination based on citizenship status while verifying employment eligibility at its store in San Ysidro, [...]

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