The USCIS has recently notified 7 companies that they face debarment because each has been found to be unlawfully employing persons without employment authorization. The FAR explicitly provides that contractors may be considered for debarment if they knowingly hire an unauthorized worker or continue to employ an alien who becomes unauthorized.
The 6/5/07 revision of Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) has been restored as the correct version of the form to use. This revision reverses the USCIS announcement on June 16, 2008 of a new Form I-9 version, dated 6/16/08, to reflect a one year extension of the OMB control number. The correct “restored” form may be found at the following link:
UPDATED: See new post regarding USCIC’s decision to rescind new form here.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued a new I-9 Form containing a revision date of “06/16/08″ at the lower right corner of the form and an expiration date of 06/30/09 at the upper right corner of the form. There is no substantive change between the old I-9 Form and the new I-9 Form, the form simply bears a new revision and expiration date.
The Washington Post reports today that “a Republican state senator from Fairfax County [Virginia] has introduced a proposal that would allow a boss to fire employees who don’t speak English in the workplace, which would make them ineligible for unemployment benefits.” The bill was introduced ostensibly to protect employers from increased unemployment tax assessments in such cases. Even if the measure passes, the decision to terminate the employee would still have to pass muster with the EEOC (if challenged). The EEOC takes the position that a blanket English-only rule is discriminatory.
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