If you work with outside staffing agencies, both sides have some responsibility for ensuring that your workers are legal.


Sharon Rider, Lake Charles, La.
If a small business needs temporary help and uses a staffing firm to obtain hourly workers, who will be subject to penalties if the workers turn out to be illegal aliens? Is it the small business or the staffing firm?


By Adriana Gardella, Fortune Small Business Senior Editor


Both may be liable. “Immigration law generally imposes sanctions on those who knowingly employ unauthorized workers,â€