U.S Government to Delay Contract Requirement to Verify Employee Immigaration Status

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We have written before about how the U.S. government intended to implement a rule on January 15th that all companies receiving defense contracts would have to use the E-Verify system to make sure no illegal immigrants were working for them. A group of organizations representing U.S. businesses announced that they would sue to stop the rule in late December. Now as reported in the St. Louis Business Journal the implementation of the rule has been delayed due to the lawsuit. Now it will go into effect no earlier then February 20.

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