US Government may begin verifying employee legal status
Is this “cool” or too much like “big-brother?” Uncle Sam is considering a bill that would verify the legal status of employees upon hire. Your thoughts?
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Employers would verify the legal status of prospective employees through a new all-electronic system using expanded state databases that may include biometrics under a bill introduced Feb. 28 by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas).
The New Employee Verification Act proposes to replace the Homeland Security Department’s current E-Verify system, which began as a voluntary pilot program 10 years ago.
In E-Verify, employers check prospective new hires against Social Security Administration and Homeland Security databases. However, the E-Verify databases have significant errors that critics say would result in discrimination against millions of people if the system were mandatory rather than voluntary. Illinois adopted a law last year that prohibited use of E-Verify due to similar concerns.
Under Johnson’s legislation, a new Electronic Employment Verification System would be created based on databases operated in each state. Those databases are already used to track down parents for child support. The data also would be matched with data in the Social Security database, for citizens, and in Homeland Security databases, for noncitizens.
The bill would allow biometrics to be added voluntarily.
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