Simone Landon, Labor Notes Magazine
August 2008, No. 353
California may become the latest of several states to put restrictions on an online system that attempts to verify whether a job applicant can work in the U.S.
Unions and immigrants’ rights groups—including the Service Employees and the California Immigrant Policy Center—are sponsoring a bill to limit use of the federal program, calling it a tool the government uses to target immigrants in the workplace.
“We’ve had members who’ve lost their jobs and been discriminated against because of erroneous, flawed information from the federal government,” said Allen Davenport, government relations director for the SEIU California State Council. [...]
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