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Georgia’s Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act Soon to Take Effect

 

Just to remind anyone ordering background checks from Georgia for employment screening purposes that Georgia has new statutes going into effect, beginning the first of 2021.   Similar in some ways to Arizona’s Legal Arizona Workers Act, of 2007.  That statute mandates that businesses conduct E-Verify or I-9 on all new employees in order to determine eligibility to work in the United States.   Arizona businesses that fail to comply face fines and closures, including possible loss of business license.

Georgia enacted the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011. Signed into law on 05/13/2011 the Act requires private employers, before issuance or renewal of a business license or an occupational tax certificate, to register and use the federal government s E-Verify program to verify the employment eligibility of employees.

 

The bill takes effect in three stages:

–              Effective 01/01/12 for employers with 500 or more employees

–              Effective 07/01/12 for employers with 100 or more employees but fewer than 500

–              Effective 07/01/13 for employers with more than 10 employees but fewer than 100

 

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

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