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Arizona House Bill 2779, also known as the Employer Sanctions Bill, will force corporations in Arizona to raise the bar on I-9 compliance. The new law requires employers to verify that the people they employ are present in the country legally; knowing or intentional failure to do so will cause the employer’s business licenses to be suspended. A second offense can result in the “business death penalty” – a permanent revocation of an employer’s licenses to do business in Arizona.

The problems which many employers face, not only in Arizona, but throughout the United States is, “How does one verify the identity of a new employee?” The government in its infinite wisdom came up with the SAVE program which was intended to help employers verify the eligibility of newly hired individuals. The program, which helped employers verify the validity of social security numbers, missed the mark big time for employers dealing with individuals using real social security numbers but have fraudulent documents.

Swift and Company, the countries third largest meat processor, was raided December 12, 2006 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Swift and Company had participated in the SAVE program for more than ten years, but that did not help Swift when it came to I-9 Compliance. Why? Because the validity of a number means nothing if the person standing in front of you is not who he or she claims to be.

The real solution for Arizona I-9 Compliance as well as with any I-9 compliance is the verification of the identity documents presented. Most human resource personnel have no idea what kind of security features to look for when they examine the documents required to establish identity and worker eligibility. Therefore, human resource personnel must become document experts in order to save their companies from costly government audits; as well as lawsuits being filed by legal status employees against companies who are out of compliance.

In today’s shrinking world, there is a tremendous need for the human resources person to have all the tools for document verification at their fingertips. There are a myriad of documents that can be presented during the hiring process and a human resources person cannot specify which document or documents must be submitted. Having a subscription to Allegiant Solutions will enable an employer to confirm that the person in front of him/her and the person in the document presented are the same.

For more information concerning on being compliant with Arizona House Bill 2779, consider subscribing to Allegiant Solutions.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at 11:18 pm and is filed under Illegal Immigration, Homeland Security, Worker Authorization, Fraudulent Documents. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.