A San Antonio bakery was fined nearly $15,000 for not properly verifying employment eligibility for the majority of its staff, in violation of Form I-9 hiring regulations. ICE alleged that the bakery’s owners failed to produce nine Form I-9s, and also did not properly complete 23 of the hiring documents, a sign of the business acting in “bad faith.” The owners explained that they did not have the means to distinguish the falsified hiring documents from genuine ones. Had they utilized E-Verify they could have easily run a background check on new hires, and had they taken advantage of electronic Form I-9s, completing the documents would have been much easier.
Is Lacking the Means an Excuse for Failure to Verify?
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