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The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a newly revamped and reformatted Form I-9, along with corresponding instructions and M-274 Handbook for Employers. The new form, with revision date “(Rev. 03/08/13) N,” must be used effective May 8th, after which date employers should no longer submit forms bearing the revision dates (Rec. 08/07/09) Y or (Rev. 02/02/09) N. Enforcement of Form I-9 compliance Continue reading
Never content with the current regulatory burden upon employers, our estimable federal government has decided that the existing Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) regulations and forms are insufficiently onerous. Accordingly, one of Washington’s latest bureaucracies, the Consumer Financial Protection Board (“CFPB,” the agency that has assumed FCRA-enforcement responsibilities from the Federal Trade Commission), has issued new regulations that will, among other things, require employers to Continue reading
Starting January 1, 2012, Georgia employers with 500 or more employees must enroll and use E-Verify, the online federal work authorization program that determines the immigration status of new hires. The mandate will trickle down to companies with between 100 and 499 employees on July 1, 2012, and companies with 10 to 99 employees must begin using E-Verify by July 1, 2013. For the purposes Continue reading
Avoid Hiring the Next Person You’ll Fire On a Cub Scout camping trip this weekend, I started talking with another boy’s dad. He was an emergency room physician at a large public hospital. During the conversation about all the crazy stuff he sees, he told me that the folks in the ER consider trauma to be a chronic condition. He wasn’t serious, of course, and Continue reading
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