Article: President Bush Signs Amended Executive Order 12989 Requiring Federal Contractors To Use The E-Verify Employment Verification System.

What Happened?

On June 6, 2008, President Bush signed an amendment to Executive Order 12989, which now requires federal contractors to use the E-Verify employment verification system to confirm the employment eligibility of all new employees hired during a contract term and all existing employees assigned to work on a federal contract. Until now, private employers were invited to use the E-Verify system, but enrollment was voluntary.

Depending on the number of government contracts issued in the coming years, Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") Secretary Michael Chertoff stated that this executive order could potentially affect as many as 1 million ...

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