Most human resource professionals are uncertain as to how the revised Form I-9 will impact their jobs, according to a recent Compensation.BLR.com poll. However, of those who expressed certainty, most believed the revisions would make their job easier rather than harder.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, removing five documents from the form's list of those acceptable for proof of identity and employment eligibility.
HR will be doing a lot more work if legislation that would overhaul immigration law is approved, said Mary E. Pivec, a partner at the law firm Keller and Heckman, during the Society for Human Resource Management's 59th Annual Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas.
Attorneys Allen M. Kato and Lawrence S. McGoldrick offered valuable advice during a recent BLR audio conference on what documents should be kept in employee personnel files and how long these records should be retained.
A federal court sitting in New York recently heard a wage payment case illustrating the gravity of the risk a company takes when it destroys documents relevant to ongoing litigation.
The current flap over President Bush's service in the National Guard may come down to the quality of the military's recordkeeping from more than 30 years ago.
The EEOC has proposed changes to the EEO-1 form. The EEO-1 form is sent to private industry employers with 100 or more employees and federal contractors with 50 or more employees.
The Federal Trade Commission released a report Wednesday that said complaints of identity theft nearly doubled in 2002. Many of these thefts originated from stolen employment records, according to USA Today.
Babies "R" Us, Inc., a division of Toys "R" Us, has agreed to pay Andres Vasquez $205,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Reacting to a wave of accounting scandals, the U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to adopt new criminal penalties for corporate fraud and document shredding.
