Workplace Enforcement’s Silent Victims Lynn Woolsey Chairwoman of the "Workforce Protection Subcommittee Committee on House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections" [I am not making that up…if it's a typo, that's what was there and I cut and pasted the title] testified before Congress on May 20, 2008. The subject: what enforcement is doing to the children of illegal migrants. I will just leave you some of the most important excerpts from her presentation (the BOLD HIGHLIGHTS are my addition, btw):"Today, we will explore the effects of the ICE raids on the children of immigrant parents. Before 2006, theBush Administration`s record on enforcement was not very good…But by 2006, ICE had increased its enforcement activities and made about 4,400 worksite arrests, more t…
SHRM Back in D.C. pushing NEVA SHRM reported yesterday that their President and CEO, Susan R. Meisinger, was in Washington last week urging Congress to replace E-Verify with NEVA. Their words: "The employee authorization plan supported by SHRM would be implemented under the proposed New Employee Verification Act (NEVA) (H.R. 5515)—introduced by Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas—Meisinger said at a May 6, 2008, House Subcommittee on Social Security hearing on the impact employment verification will have on the Social Security Administration. NEVA is designed to transform the current paper-based verification process into a state-of-the-art electronic system that is accurate, reliable, cost-efficient, easy-to-use and that shares responsibility among government, employers and employees, she said."As I unde… Continue Reading →
Imprisonment of Employer VP Leaves Fishing Industry Reeling* (*I humbly apologize to my readers for this appalling headline but it proved irresistible and I may never have an opportunity for it again.)[Readers, take note: I’ve been telling you for about five years that the threat of jail time against I-9 violating company officials would become a primary weapon of enforcement any day. That has been increasingly the case, but the enforcement we’ve seen has been driven by Homeland Security and other Federal agencies. Now, armed with discretion and reflective of the public demand for prosecution of violating employers, Federal Courts are getting into the game, and it’s getting very ugly very fast.]The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported May 1st that a federal judge socked it to Newport-News based fishing enterprise Peabody Corp … Continue Reading →