Rule Threatening Employers Repealed
According to The San Francisco Chronicle, even though the Department of Homeland Security formally withdrew the “no-match” rule earlier this month, the administration is backing another program enabling employers to check workers’ names against electronic records intended to screen out illegal immigrants. The previous ruling, debated in San Francisco federal court for two years, threatened employers with prosecution if they did not fire workers whose social security numbers failed to match a government database called E-Verify.
E-Verify, although voluntary for many employers, is mandatory for the 170,000 companies holding federal contracts and for their subcontractors. During the week of October 5, 2009, a House-Senate conference committee voted to continue E-Verify for three years.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform, backing restrictions on immigration, said the government confirmed E-Verify is accurate in 99.6% of cases and criticized the House-Senate conference committee for not making the program permanent. (workersxzcompxzkit)
The no-match rule was designed to support a 1986 law prohibiting businesses from knowingly employing illegal immigrants, allowing employees three months to reconcile differences between the social security numbers employers received and differences in the SSA database. If employers could not reconcile SSNs and did not release the workers they were subject to civil fines and criminal prosecution.
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