Fact of the Week: 4/16/08

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

It’s Time for Congress to Create an Employment Verification System That Works


 Fact Check

Mandating E-Verify won’t fix a broken
employment verification system.

Did you know the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA - H.R. 5515) offers an alternative to E-Verify that holds the promise of a new and improved employment verification system that can ensure accuracy and reliability?

  • The current voluntary federal employment verification system, E-Verify, relies upon the Social Security database, which has a 4 percent error rate.
  • This error rate could lead to significant hardship for as many as 6 million legal American workers whose personal data is inaccurate – leading to the potential denial of employment.
  • NEVA requires advance resources to clean up the Social Security database, as well as establishing accuracy standards and annual reporting requirements, thereby reducing the risk that millions of Americans will face a lengthy bureaucratic ordeal to correct database problems in the wake of an E-Verify rejection.

 

The New Employee Verification Act will mandate a national employment verification system for new hires that is reliable, efficient and secure.

To learn more, visit www.legal-workforce.org.

With E-Verify Set to Expire in 2008, Now is the Time for the Next Generation of Employment Verification.

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The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce (www.legal-workforce.org) represents human resource professionals in thousands of small and large U.S. employers representing every sector of the American economy.  The HR Initiative and its members are seeking to improve the current process of employment verification by creating a secure, efficient and reliable system that will ensure a legal workforce and help prevent unauthorized employment, a root cause of illegal immigration.