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Press Releases

• HR Initiative Applauds Approval of Temporary E-Verify Extension
  10/21/2009
  – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce today applauded the Senate’s approval of legislation providing for a three-year extension of funding for E-Verify. While the federal government’s employment verification system remains controversial for its vulnerability to fraud and its reliance on outdated technologies, employers see it as a bridge to establishing an effective and efficient national employment verification system. The House included the E-Verify funding measure in the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill it approved last week.
• KY Human Resource Professionals Endorse Employment Verification Legislation Co-Sponsored by Representatives Davis and Guthrie
  08/18/2009
  The NKY Society for Human Resource Management today endorsed the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA), as co-sponsored by U.S. Representatives Geoff Davis (R-KY) and Brett Guthrie (R-KY).
• SHRM Urges Virginia Assembly to Reject E-Verify Employer Mandate
  08/03/2009
  In testimony today on behalf of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), former Congressman Bruce A. Morrison urged the Virginia Small Business Commission to reject proposals to mandate the use of E-Verify by Virginia employers. E-Verify is the controversial federal employment verification system that has significant technical shortcomings, including reliance on error prone federal databases, and a vulnerability to fraud and identity theft.
• Kansas Human Resource Professionals Endorse Representative Moore’s Employment Verification Legislation
  08/03/2009
  The Kansas SHRM State Council Human Resources Association today endorsed the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA), as co-sponsored by U.S. Representative Dennis Moore (D-KS).
• HR Initiative Praises Senator Schumer's Initiative to Improve Employment Verification
  07/23/2009
  The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce (HR Initiative) applauded Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for spearheading the drive in the U.S. Senate to replace E-Verify with “a tough, fair, and effective employment verification system…”
• HR Initiative Applauds Senator Schumer for Promoting Biometric Employment Verification in Immigration Reform
  06/25/2009
  Washington, D.C. – The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce applauded Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for including a call for a national biometric-based employment verification system as a key element of the immigration reform legislation he will introduce in the fall.
• 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.