Safeguard Screening » e-verify http://www.safeguardscreening.com Your source for Employment Screening Background Checks Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:44:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Opposition to E-Verify mounts in face of raids http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2008/opposition-to-e-verify-mounts-in-face-of-raids/ http://www.safeguardscreening.com/2008/opposition-to-e-verify-mounts-in-face-of-raids/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:13:37 +0000 Safeguard Screening http://www.safeguardscreening.com/?p=34 An interesting detail about the high profile raid of Howard Industries, in which 595 suspected illegal workers were arrested, is Howard claims they were using the E-Verify electronic I-9 compliance system established by the federal government to help employers remain in compliance with federal labor laws.  In addition, Swift Co, which was raided in December 2006, also claims they were using E-Verify before they were raided.

Apparently SHRM has established a organization called HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce which has criticized the effectiveness of E-Verify.

E-Verify, which checks information from I-9 forms against Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration databases, cannot tell if a worker is submitting a stolen Social Security number.

Based on the article in Workforce Management, the proof that Howard Industries was using E-Verify is a statement from the company “Howard Industries runs every check allowed to ascertain the immigration status of all applicants for jobs”  There was no indication that an independant investigation of Howard Industries was conducted to determine if they were using E-Verify correctly, or screening every employee.  Perhaps they weren’t.  Perhaps by using E-Verify, Howard Industries opened themselves up to an easier investigation of its practices by the Feds.  I suppose it would be a simple arithmetic problem; how many employees it files on payroll, and how many submitted on E-Verify.  Even if they match, it seems that the E-verify helps the government locate abused SSNs and duplicate employment records for stolen SSNs.  

It should be interesting to see if the quality of E-verify I-9 Compliance pans out, and how the system is adopted in a largely volunteer space.




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