If the applicant produces a legit looking SS card, what then? Do they verify the number always?
Bogus SS cards are hard to detect. Someone can come here on a legit work or student visa and stay beyond the date and float around using a fake SS card. Homeland Security folks are running around like crazy in Florida rounding them up. There are MANY you will not hear about in the news.
I still don't get it.
I retired 10 years ago and got a part time job. I had to bring in a birth certificate or passport before I got hired and this was definitely not a job that would affect homeland security,
What changed?
Then the employer must hire them or be faced with the full wrath of the DOJ. Specifically:
Office of SPECIAL COUNCIL for Immigration - Related Unfair Employment Practices
****Do they verify the number always?***
Employers never "verify" - as they can't. Currently there is no way for employers to verify if an SS number is valid. Also, if a submitted I-9 form comes back indicating the SS number or other form of ID doesn't match said applicant, the employer CAN'T fire the suspect employee. As if they do and have 'guessed wrong', they will again face the wrath of the DOJ and be subject to a employment discrimination Law Suit.
There was a thread on hiring of illegals over the weekend and I found that "immigrants" have MORE employment 'rights' than U.S. citizens. The bottom line is that if 'Juan' shows any form of ID - even if apparently bogus to the dumbest person, he better be hired - or else.
Scan the DOJ website and the Dept of Labor and you'll see what I mean.
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No, but that is the FIRST thing that should be done beofre hiring anybody. That should be law!