California Employers are embracing the E-Verify or I-9  as a background check in order to determine which job applicants are eligible to work in the United States.  With all the rancor about undocumented workers, or illegal immigrants, call it what you want, many savvy employers are looking to avoid government crackdowns  by employing E-Verifying.  In [...]

  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 [...]

New Jersey may soon be implemented a bill similar to the Arizona legislation, the Legal Arizona’s Workers Act,  first signed by former Governor, Jane Napolitano, in 2008. Two New Jersey State Senators have introduced a similar bill barring employment of unauthorized workers and requiring all employers in the state to use the Federal government’s E-Verify [...]

The State of Alabama has passed what some have considered one of the toughest immigration laws in the country.   The law was passed initially by a large voting margin and comes in the wake of the recent United States Supreme Court ruling on the Arizona’s Legal Worker’s Act of 2007 that sanctions businesses for hiring undocumented workers.  Businesses in Arizona [...]