Thread: Arizona’s employers slow to get with program

Arizona’s employers slow to get with program
Becky Pallack

E-Verify, the federal database for verifying a new hire’s legal status, largely has worked fine for Arizona employers.

That’s in part because only 15 percent of employers in the state have signed up to use it.

Just 22,000 of the 145,000 Arizona employers have registered, said Marie Sebrechts, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The Legal Arizona Workers Act that took effect Jan. 1 requires all Arizona employers to use E-Verify.

The federal agency expected a lot more employers to have registered by now, Sebrechts said.

Critics of the law predicted the system would crash under the load of new queries, but it didn’t.

Early on, there were some sign-up delays because the system was busy, said Julie Pace, a Phoenix employment attorney who represented business groups in a court challenge of the law.

“We’re in good shape at this point,â€

maybe it's time to check the books and start enforcing the laws... pass out the fines and lock up some employers and watch the ball get rolling quick

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