Recent amendments to New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination require employers to accommodate their employees “sincerely held religious observances or practices.”
news | Are You Using the New I-9 Form?
Effective April 3, 2009, employers must use the revised I-9 Form to verify identity and employment eligibility for newly hired workers. The revised form modifies the documents that an employer may rely upon to verify employment eligibility. The source documents are listed on the I-9 Form itself.
Importantly, employers may not use expired identification documents to verify eligibility. Employers are required to inspect original documents establishing identity and authorization to work in the US within 3 business days of the employee’s start date. Employers are required to keep the I-9 form for each worker in the employee’s personnel file for 3 years from the date of hire or one year from the date of termination, whichever is later. The Department of Homeland Security, the US Department of Labor, and the Office of the Special Counsel all have authority to inspect employer records and to issue fines or penalties for non-compliance. As such, employers may wish to audit their personnel files to ensure that each employee, hired on or after November 6, 1986, has a completed I-9 in their file.
The new I-9 Form may be downloaded at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=090000648043abba.
4/3/2009