Atlanta Business Journal: All but the smallest Georgia businesses would have to screen new employees’ immigration status under legislation a House committee approved on Monday.
The bill, which passed the House Judiciary Committee (Non-Civil) by a voice vote, would require companies with more than five employees to use the federal website E-Verify to determine whether newly hired workers are in this country legally. The legislation could reach the House floor as early as Wednesday. The measure is an effort to tighten state restrictions on illegal workers enacted by the Georgia General Assembly five years ago. The 2006 law applies only to businesses seeking government contracts.
The comprehensive bill also includes provisions to allow police officers to run immigration status checks on anyone they stop who cannot produce proper identification, make it a crime to obtain employment using a false ID and penalize local governments that extend public benefits to illegal immigrants.
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- Eli Kantor
- Beverly Hills, California, United States
- Eli Kantor is a labor, employment and immigration law attorney. He has been practicing labor, employment and immigration law for more than 36 years. He has been featured in articles about labor, employment and immigration law in the L.A. Times, Business Week.com and Daily Variety. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Journal. Telephone (310)274-8216; eli@elikantorlaw.com. For more information, visit beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com and and beverlyhillsemploymentlaw.com
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