Workforce Management
March 12, 2009
The federal budget signed by President Barack Obama on Wednesday, March 11, reauthorized the E-Verify immigration database through September 30.
An amendment to extend it five years didn’t make it into the final budget bill. E-Verify is a Web-based service for employers that checks information from I-9 forms against Homeland Security and Social Security Administration databases to verify whether a worker is legally eligible to work in the U.S.
Federal contractors will have to use E-Verify beginning May 21, under an executive order signed by then-President George W. Bush in June, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Society for Human Resource Management and other organizations have filed a lawsuit to stop the rule, arguing that such a mandate must come from Congress and that it could expose employers to more lawsuits from workers who feel they were discriminated against on the basis of race or national origin.
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