ICE Visits Businesses to Enforce Workplace Laws

by Vanessa Ridden May 25, 2011
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has recently issued over 1,000 notices of upcoming inspections to businesses throughout the United States. This helps to show ICE's attempt to ensure that all United States businesses are following the laws. Any businesses that violate the law will be subject to costly fines. The government hopes to show the seriousness of the issues at hand.If your business has not received a notice, it's important to make sure that you take extra efforts ... [More]

What USCIS's Responses to Comments on its Latest I-9 Rule Tell Us About the Agency

by Blake Forrester May 18, 2011
USCIS's latest rules governing the I-9 process just recently came into final force on May 16, 2011. As part of the rule-making process, USCIS was required to release the rules in draft form, receive comments from the public, and then revise the rules accordingly. For each comment that USCIS did not incorporate into its revised rule, it was required to provide an explanation of why it put the comment aside. From reviewing USCIS's responses to the issues raised with its proposed I-9 rule, we may... [More]

The Challenge Posed to I-9 Compliance by the Return of "No-Match Letters"

by Blake Forrester May 11, 2011
Part of the challenge of the I-9 process is balancing conflicting government mandates. On one hand, there is the obligation to make sure that prospective employees present facially valid employment authorization documents before putting them on the payroll. On the other hand, one must be careful not to ask employees for any specific kind of documentation, or too much of it, in order to avoid a charge by the U.S. government that non-U.S. citizens have been discriminated against in the hiring pr... [More]

Restaurant Forced to Close Due to Non-compliance

by Blake Forrester May 4, 2011
South Carolina’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation forced one of the most popular Mexican restaurants in Columbia, South Carolina to shut down its operations. The Board carried out this penalty because of repeated illegal immigration law violations attributed to the establishment. The Board closed down the local eatery for 10 days, after the restaurant repetitively violated South Carolina’s Illegal Immigration Reform Act with flagrant disregard.It seems as if the restau... [More]
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