New I-9 Form Will Help Fight Fraud
"Starting today, every employer in America must use a new employment verification form that immigration officials say will help reduce document fraud. To comply with a 1996 law, the new I-9 form drops five documents from the list that employers could use to verify employees' identities and work eligibility. And immigration experts predict this is only a first step in the government's plan to further reduce the number of documents used to verify employment, part of a heightened effort to root out document fraud in the workplace," writes James Pinkerton with the Houston Chronicle.
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