Fact of the Week: 4/29/08

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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

 

 

 Fact Check

 

Mandating E-Verify Won’t Fix a Broken System

Did you know Arizona employers prefer the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA - H.R. 5515) to E-Verify?

  • On January 1, 2008, Arizona became the first state to mandate that all employers use E-Verify.  During the past four months, Arizona’s employers have experienced first-hand the shortcomings of a system that suffers from inaccuracies and cannot detect identity fraud.
  • Despite state mandates, only 25,000 of Arizona’s employers have registered to use E-Verify. (Washington Post, 4/25/08)
  • “The current Arizona system can cause delays in hiring people. It requires us to check two to three different systems which are duplicative and costly. We are in a workforce-challenged environment, and HR 5515 would be a significant improvement over the current verification system,” says Arizona business leader W. Mark Clark, president and CEO of CODAC Behavioral Health Services.
  • Additional members of the Arizona Business Community, including the Tucson, Marana, and Sierra Vista Chambers of Commerce and the Southern Arizona Town Hall have endorsed H.R. 5515, the New Employee Verification Act.

 

Arizona Business Executives and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will brief Members and staff about the Arizona experience with E-Verify
Wednesday, April 30th at 3pm – B-318, Rayburn

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

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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.