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• HR Initiative Critical of New DHS E-Verify Mandate
  11/14/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce, a coalition representing human resource professionals and thousands of small and large U.S. employers representing every sector of the American economy, criticized the new rule issued today by the Department of Homeland Security that will require virtually all federal contractors and subcontractors to participate in E-Verify, the government’s controversial pilot employment verification system.
• HR Initiative Files Brief Supporting Employers in Oklahoma Lawsuit
  10/24/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today joined with the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. in a legal effort to overturn an Oklahoma statute requiring all employers in the state to use the federal employment verification system known as “E-Verify.”
• HR Initiative Cites Arizona Ruling in Call for Congress to Preempt Growing Patchwork of State Employment Verification Mandates
  09/19/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce cited this week’s ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which affirmed Arizona’s right to mandate employer participation in E-Verify, as evidence that Congress must act to prevent the further proliferation of discordant state and local employment verification laws.
• HR Initiative Claims New DHS E-Verify Mandate Contravenes Congressional Intent
  08/11/2008
  Washington, D.C. – In comments submitted today to the General Services Administration, the Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce coalition criticized the Department of Homeland Security’s proposed amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require federal contractors and subcontractors to participate in E-Verify, the government’s controversial pilot employment verification system.
• HR Initiative Endorses House Bill on E-Verify Extension
  08/01/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce coalition applauded passage of the bipartisan E-Verify compromise bill introduced by Representatives Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and Sam Johnson (R-TX), calling the effort a responsible step that will allow policymakers to find a real solution to the problems inherent in the current federal employment verification system.
• E-Verify Extension Must Not Exceed Three Years
  07/16/2008
  Washington, D.C. – Employer organizations today sent the following letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and all Members of Congress to urge that any extension of the current federal pilot program for employment verification, E-Verify, be no longer than three years and that it include necessary improvements to the system:
• HR Initiative Critical of Executive Order Mandating E-Verify
  06/09/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce today criticized a new Executive Order requiring all federal contractors to participate in the E-Verify program. E-Verify is the voluntary federal electronic employment verification system that has been widely criticized for its dependence on paper-based identity documents and its subsequent inability to detect the use of fraudulent identification and stolen Social Security numbers – a common tactic used by unauthorized workers to obtain jobs.
• Employers Urge Alternative to E-Verify
  05/06/2008
  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 reject the current effort to mandate use of “E-Verify” and focus instead on creating a secure employment verification system through support for H.R. 5515, the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA).
• Employers Applaud Support of Democrats for Replacement of E-Verify
  04/03/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today applauded Representative Dennis Moore (D-KS), Co-Chair for Policy of The Blue Dog Coalition, for joining Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), as a Democratic co-sponsor of H.R. 5515, the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA).
• Human Resource Experts Testify in Opposition to Mandated Use of “E-Verify” in Kansas
  03/04/2008
  Washington, D.C. – Representatives of the Society for Human Resource Management and the HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce are urging the Kansas State Legislature to resist efforts to mandate the use of the federal employment verification system know as “E-Verify.” In testimony today before the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs, Michael P. Aitken, Director of Governmental Affairs at SHRM urged legislators to “reject efforts to mandate the use of E-Verify, which is little more than an inadequate quick-fix solution to a growing national problem.”
• HR Initiative Endorses Bill to Create an Effective, Mandatory Federal Employment Verification System
  02/28/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today applauded the introduction of legislation viewed as critical to strengthening the nation’s broken employment verification system and to helping prevent unauthorized employment, a key component of any meaningful immigration reform effort.
• Business Leaders Call for Nation’s First Mandatory Employment Verification System
  02/28/2008
  Alexandria, Va., – Feb. 28, 2008 – The world’s largest association devoted to human resource management today led a coalition of business leaders and HR professionals in endorsing legislation that would create the nation’s first mandatory employment verification system for all U.S. employers.
• Poll Shows Strong Doubts About Effectiveness of Federal Employment Verification System
  Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research  02/28/2008
  Washington, D.C. - Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies today released results of a national poll assessing public opinion on employment verification as a tool for stemming illegal immigration.
• Human Resource Experts Urge Defeat of Kansas “E-Verify” Bill
  02/11/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today urged Kansas state legislators to resist an attempt to mandate the use of E-Verify by state employers, as contained in the omnibus immigration bill, S.B. 458, currently under consideration in the Kansas State Senate. E-Verify is the voluntary federal employment verification system that has been recently mandated by legislative action in Arizona.
• Human Resource Experts Urge Wisconsin Legislators to Reject “No-Match” Employment Verification Penalties
  02/11/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today urged Wisconsin state legislators to reject A.B. 712 and S.B. 404, two of a series of immigration reform bills pending before the Wisconsin Legislature that would punish employers for not responding within 30 days to the receipt of a “no-match” letter from the federal government.
• HR Initiative Urges Restraint by States on National Immigration Policy
  01/17/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today urged state governors to resist any attempt to mandate the use of E-Verify by state employers. E-Verify is the voluntary federal employment verification system that has been recently mandated by legislative action in Arizona and by Executive Order in Minnesota. The Arizona law is currently undergoing a legal challenge.
• HR Initiative Calls for Delay of Minnesota E-Verify Order
  01/08/2008
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today urged Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to rescind enforcement of an executive order directing state government, state contractors and recipients of state business incentives to utilize the federal employment verification system known as “Basic Pilot” (also known as “E-Verify”).