This week, the EEOC showed it means business about the use of arrest and conviction records in employment decisions.

Today is May 7th, which means you should be using the new I-9 form exclusively from now on. A copy is available here. The form itself — pages 7 and 8 — must be duplexed. The instructions must be made available to persons completing the form.

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On Friday, March 8, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a new Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. The form must be used immediately by employers for new hires, with the exception of employers who need to make necessary updates to their business processes to allow for use of the new Form I-9. Those employers [...]

Co-authored with Russell Samson Executive branch agencies continue to make good on President Obama’s promise to ferret out and rectify unfair pay discrimination. As part of that effort, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) of the U.S. Department of Labor significantly tightened its approach to investigations and enforcement for federal government contractors and [...]