January 26, 2006

Basic Pilot Program: verifying legal staus of employees used by few employers

Posted by D.A. King at 12:25 pm - Email the author   Print This Post Print This Post  

This from World Net Daily

INVASION USA
Employers shun service to weed out illegal hires
Web-based program accesses databases, IDs phony documents ‘within a minute’

An 8-year-old federal program that permits employers to use the Internet to instantly verify prospective hires’ legal eligibility to work in the U.S. is being used by less that 1/10 of 1 percent of the nation’s companies because it is voluntary, under-publicized and puts its users at a competitive disadvantage to firms who continue to hire illegal workers.

read entire article here.

Am I the only one who wonders why the press doesn’t cover the fact that the state of Georgia doesn’t use Basic Pilot?