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• HR Initiative Urges Continued Challenge to Arizona Employment Verification Law
  12/10/2007
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today urged continued pursuit of a legal challenge to a new Arizona law requiring all employers to use the federal employment verification system known as “Basic Pilot” (also known as “E-Verify”). The case was dismissed on Friday by the U.S District Court for Arizona on procedural grounds.
• HR Initiative Applauds Hill Conferees for Dropping “Basic Pilot” Rider
  11/15/2007
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today applauded House and Senate conferees for dropping a mandate that all private vendors holding contracts with the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development participate in the “Basic Pilot” employment verification system.
• Senate Applauded for Effort to Keep “Basic Pilot” Voluntary for Federal Contractors
  10/25/2007
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today applauded the Senate for not including a proposed mandate that all private vendors holding contracts with the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education participate in the “Basic Pilot” employment verification system.
• Human Resource Professionals Urge Congress to Keep “Basic Pilot” Voluntary for Federal Contractors
  10/16/2007
  Washington, D.C. – In a letter delivered today to all U.S. Senators, twelve leading trade, professional and educational associations representing human resource experts and employers from across all sectors of the U.S. economy called on Congress to improve the federal employment verification system – known as Basic Pilot – before it expires next year, rather than require all federal contractors to participate in the system now.
• HR Initiative Files Brief Supporting Employers in Arizona Lawsuit
  09/14/2007
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today joined a legal effort to overturn a new Arizona law requiring all employers that are located in Arizona, that transact business in Arizona, or that employ one or more persons in Arizona to use the federal employment verification system known as “Basic Pilot” (also known as “E-Verify”).
• New DHS “No-Match” Rule Must Provide Clarity for Employers
  08/13/2007
  Washington, D.C. – Commenting on the new “no-match” employment verification rules issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security, the HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce and its members pledged to monitor the program closely to ensure that the new regulations produce the guidance and clarity U.S. employers have needed. No-match letters are issued by the Social Security Administration when an employee’s name does not match his or her social security number.
• International Biometric Industry Association Calls for Stronger Employment Verification System with Biometrics
  06/29/2007
  With the failure of the comprehensive immigration reform bill to pass the Senate, the International Biometric Industry Association (IBIA) called for Congress, the Administration and certain key industries to continue to work on ways to strengthen our nation's current employment verification system and to use technologies like biometrics that help verify people's work authorization status.
• HR Initiative to Continue Effort to Secure a Stronger Employment Verification System
  06/28/2007
  Washington, D.C. – Despite today’s Senate cloture vote that apparently derailed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, S. 1639, the HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce will continue its efforts to strengthen the employment verification system for U.S. employers.
• Leading HR Group to Support Key Amendment to Senate Immigration Bill
  Society for Human Resource Management  06/26/2007
  Washington, D.C. -- The following statement by Susan R. Meisinger, President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) was issued today.
• SHRM Recommends Stronger Employment Verification System
  The Fratelli Group  06/07/2007
  Washington, D.C. -- In testimony today before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, Susan R. Meisinger, President and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) urged Congress to strengthen and improve employment verification measures in the comprehensive immigration reform legislation now under consideration. SHRM is a founding member of the Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce (HR Initiative).
• HR Expert Group Calls for Stronger Employment Verification Provisions in Senate Immigration Bill
  The Fratelli Group  05/17/2007
  Washington, D.C. -- Following an initial review of the draft Senate immigration reform proposal announced today, the Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce (HR Initiative) called on the Senate to improve the employment verification measures included in Title III of the bill.
• HR Expert Group Calls for Stronger Employment Verification Provisions
  The Fratelli Group  04/26/2007
  Washington, D.C. – The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce (HR Initiative) today called on Congress to include enhanced employment verification measures as part of the comprehensive immigration reform legislation now under consideration.
• Greater Security in Employment Verification the Goal of HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce
  The Fratelli Group  03/07/2007
  Washington, D.C. – The nation’s leading human resource organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of HR professionals, as well as thousands of U.S. employers from every sector of the economy, today launched an initiative to help stem the tide of illegal immigration by bringing greater security and reliability to the nation’s employment verification system.