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10:05am –
12:00pm
ICE:
Avoiding Meltdowns Best Practices
With Comprehensive Immigration Reform heating
up, and the Obama administration developing its
own enforcement agenda focusing on Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) administrative
audits, employers need to understand what is at
stake. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) has also added enforcement
minded initiatives including a Monitoring and
Compliance division to the E-Verify (electronic
verification of work eligibility) program.
Federal Contractors and their subs, vendors and
suppliers have been hit by the hardest of winter
storms with the newly enacted requirements
mandating the use and flow down of E-Verify. The
penalties are severe and the government is no
longer negotiating fines of pennies on the
dollar. Government contractors can be debarred
for not complying. Learn about the Department of
Homeland Security's (DHS) electronic
verification system, E-Verify, and its
relationship to the I-9 process Learn about this
and other changes affecting your workforce.
Too often company executives and managers assume
their I-9 and compliance practices are in order,
when in fact, records and policies are in a
shambles leaving the business and individuals
open to fines and liability. Compliance planning
and protocols are necessary even for the
smallest of companies, as well as
anti-discrimination training to avoid improper
treatment of workers. Understand your options as
well as responsibilities.
I-9 Compliance
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Compliance Planning |
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Best Practices/Training |
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Do’s and Don’ts-Common Mistakes on the I-9 |
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The New Meltdown and the Old ICE Storm:
Administrative Audits vs. Worksite Enforcement
Actions (aka Raids) |
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Employer Penalties: Civil and Criminal |
E-Verify and Federal Contractors: Changes and
Requirements
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What is E-Verify and who must use it? |
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What are the benefits and costs associated with
using E-Verify? |
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What are the new requirements for federal
contractors? |
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What employees need to be run through the
E-Verify system |
Has the chill been removed from SSA ‘No-Match’
letters? No direction, no safe harbor
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How will ICE deal with No-Match letters |
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Should Employers have a policy even with the
regulation rescinded? |
Avoiding Discrimination Charges
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What is the Office of Special Counsel, DOJ? |
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Overdocumentation |
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E-Verify Misuse |
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Pre-Screening |
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Workers’ Rights at the Workplace |
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Panel: |
Julie Myers Wood - President, Immigration
and Customs Solutions, LLC
(Assistant
Secretary for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, 2005-2008)
Dawn M. Lurie - Business Immigration and
Compliance Attorney, Greenberg Traurig LLP
John Torres - Special Agent in Charge,
Washington D.C. - Invited
TBA -
ICE Special Agent- Washington D.C. IMAGE
Coordinator |
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Moderator: |
Donna L. Lipinski, Immigration Attorney,
Blue Ridge Immigration Law Center, PLLC |
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