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