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Florida’s Mandatory E-Verify Law: A Compliance Plan for Covered Employers

Fisher Phillips on 8/15/2025

Employers in Florida need to comply with the state’s stricter employment verification obligations, or they could face serious consequences. Since 2023, private businesses with at least 25 employees have been required to use...more

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to End Protected Status for Venezuelans – What Employers Should Do Now

Fisher Phillips on 5/20/2025

The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 350,000 Venezuelans, putting hundreds of thousands of workers at risk of losing legal authorization to...more

A New Year, A New Warning: DOJ’s First 2025 Settlement Highlights IRCA’s Anti-Discrimination Compliance

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 1/17/2025

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a settlement with Brick & Bourbon, a Minnesota-based restaurant group, for violations of federal anti-discrimination laws in its employment eligibility verification...more

The Cost of Non-Compliance: Insights from IERs Settlement Agreement with Great Dane LLC

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/9/2024

On November 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with Great Dane LLC (Great Dane), a trailer manufacturing company, over allegations of discriminatory hiring practices against non-U.S....more

Last Call for E-Verify Records: Compliance Steps Before the January 5, 2025 Disposal

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 10/15/2024

USCIS’s E-Verify Disposal Announcement - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that employers using E-Verify have until January 5, 2025, to download and retain records for cases last...more

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your November To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 11/6/2023

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

DHS Makes Qualified Employers’ Virtual Inspection of Form I-9 Original Documentation Permanent Option

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/24/2023

On July 21, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final rule, which will be officially published on July 25, 2023, that will provide eligible employers filling out the Employment Eligibility Verification...more

Tips on Physical Reverification of Virtually Verified Remote Employees

Littler on 7/17/2023

As was previously reported, employers have until August 30, 2023, to conduct in-person physical verification of identity and employment eligibility documentation for all employees who were onboarded using remote virtual...more

Employers Have 30 Days to Reach Compliance after I-9 COVID Flexibilities End on July 31, 2023

Littler on 5/22/2023

On May 4, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) announced that employers have 30 days to reach I-9 compliance after COVID-19 flexibilities end on July 31, 2023. Under...more

Florida Poised to Require Employers to Use E-Verify with New Hires: Your 5 Key Takeaways

Fisher Phillips on 5/10/2023

As part of a potentially growing trend, a new law in Florida will require private employers with at least 25 employees to use E-Verify – the digital immigration verification tool – during their onboarding process starting...more

3 Worksite I-9 Compliance Updates: The Times They Are a Changin’ … For the Better?

Fisher Phillips on 3/7/2023

The USCIS approach to immigration compliance is changing rapidly as we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. While employers must use Form I-9 to verify employment eligibility, it is an often-overlooked requirement that may open...more

Substantial Changes to Form I-9 Effective on November 1, 2022

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 10/13/2022

Starting on November 1, 2022, employers verifying their employees’ identity and employment authorization eligibility must use the new I-9 Form version....more

I-9 Deadline Approaching: Employers Have Until July 31 to Update Critical Immigration Forms

Fisher Phillips on 7/14/2022

If you accepted expired forms of identification from new employees who completed their I-9 forms during the pandemic, your deadline for updating them with current proofs of identification is fast approaching. The Department...more

I-9 compliance flexibility extended till October 31, but a question remains

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/3/2022

In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement relaxed some of the I-9 compliance requirements because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of these “flexibilities” ended this...more

ICE Extends I-9 Compliance Flexibility

Verrill on 6/4/2021

Those responsible for employee onboarding can breathe a sigh of relief after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week announced that they would extend flexibilities that were instituted last year as a result of...more

Avoiding Unfair Documentary Practices in the I-9 Process

Miles & Stockbridge P.C. on 11/16/2020

The Justice Department announced on November 10, 2020 that it signed a settlement agreement with Fleetlogix Inc. (“Fleetlogix”) resolving claims that the company discriminated against work-authorized, non-U.S. citizens by...more

Temporary Flexibility For Employer I-9 Compliance To End November 19, ICE Announces

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 11/4/2020

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been flexible about how to complete Form I-9 employment verification due to the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing companies working remotely to inspect documents virtually (e.g.,...more

Relief For Employees With Approved Employment Authorization

Burr & Forman on 9/3/2020

COVID-19 has affected nearly all areas of immigration, including the speed at which the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) is able to produce the Employment Authorization Document (“EAD card”). ...more

Form I-9 Update – Employers May Accept An Alternative To An Employment Authorization Document In Light Of Governmental Delays

Amundsen Davis LLC on 8/25/2020

On August 19, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that due to delays in production of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EAD’s – Form I-766) that employees may use Form I-797, Notice of...more

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Hiring & Firing › Employment Eligibility Verification › Corporate Counsel

Florida’s Mandatory E-Verify Law: A Compliance Plan for Covered Employers

Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to End Protected Status for Venezuelans – What Employers Should Do Now

A New Year, A New Warning: DOJ’s First 2025 Settlement Highlights IRCA’s Anti-Discrimination Compliance

The Cost of Non-Compliance: Insights from IERs Settlement Agreement with Great Dane LLC

Last Call for E-Verify Records: Compliance Steps Before the January 5, 2025 Disposal

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your November To-Do List

DHS Makes Qualified Employers’ Virtual Inspection of Form I-9 Original Documentation Permanent Option

Tips on Physical Reverification of Virtually Verified Remote Employees

Employers Have 30 Days to Reach Compliance after I-9 COVID Flexibilities End on July 31, 2023

Florida Poised to Require Employers to Use E-Verify with New Hires: Your 5 Key Takeaways

3 Worksite I-9 Compliance Updates: The Times They Are a Changin’ … For the Better?

Substantial Changes to Form I-9 Effective on November 1, 2022

I-9 Deadline Approaching: Employers Have Until July 31 to Update Critical Immigration Forms

I-9 compliance flexibility extended till October 31, but a question remains

ICE Extends I-9 Compliance Flexibility

Avoiding Unfair Documentary Practices in the I-9 Process

Temporary Flexibility For Employer I-9 Compliance To End November 19, ICE Announces

Relief For Employees With Approved Employment Authorization

Form I-9 Update – Employers May Accept An Alternative To An Employment Authorization Document In Light Of Governmental Delays

The 2020 Summer Defrost Continues: ICE Extends I-9 Flexibility

I-9 Compliance Flexibility Extended To August 19, 2020

ICE Extends Virtual I-9 Flexibility for 30 Days: Announcement Does Not Address Increasing Employer Questions

Form I-9 And E-Verify: What Employers Should Know As Businesses Reopen

The Form I-9 & the New M-274- Handbook for Employers: Like Peanut Butter & Jelly

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