Date: Wednesday, July 13
Time: 2:00 p.m. (ET) / 1:00 p.m. (CT) / 12:00 p.m. (MT) / 11:00 a.m. (PT)
Length: 75 minutes
Fee: $99 for ABC Members
Speaker: Mary Pivec, Partner, Keller and Heckman LLP
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(click on the title to download)
- USCIS M-274, Employer Handbook (June 2011 ed.)
- USCIS I-9 Central Home Page
- SSA 2011 Employer DECOR Letter
- Sample ICE Notices of Inspection (June 2011 Audits)
- OSC No Match Letter Guidance for Employees
- Catholic Healthcare West 10/19/10 Settlement Agreement and General Release with OSC
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1. Corporate Risk/Compliance Managers and Officials
2. Human Resources Personnel
3. Corporate Counsel
4. Small Business Owners
5. Federal Contractors
Building and construction contractors report a high incidence of I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification audits and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigations, as well as report concerns about high fines, possible criminal prosecution and debarment from federal contracts.
This webinar will give an overview of I-9 compliance and recordkeeping issues, including the latest government guidance regarding I-9 processing and retention; best practices for self-audit and correction; opportunities and pitfalls in E-Verify and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Mutual Agreement (IMAGE) participation; warnings regarding non-compliant electronic I-9 systems; responding to Social Security Administration (SSA) Decentralized Correspondence (DECOR) notices; and strategies for dealing with the new threat of agency fusion enforcement tactics.
1. Cover I-9 compliance best practices, self-audit procedures, and corrective actions
2. Identify major developments in E-Verify, IMAGE and electronic I-9s
3. Provide guidance for responding to the new SSA no match notices
4. Examine the latest developments in ICE I-9 audits, fines and criminal prosecutions
5. Explore “fusion” enforcement tactics (OSHA, W&H, SSA, IRS and ICE)
Mary E. Pivec is an employment and litigation partner with the firm of Keller and Heckman LLP in Washington, D.C., a law firm representing businesses in government regulatory law and litigation through offices in the U.S., Europe and China.
Pivec’s practice is concentrated in the fields of U.S. workplace law and immigration compliance. She represents employers exclusively in investigations and disputes with government agencies and prosecutors, labor unions, individual employees and classes of employees. Pivec’s workplace immigration defense practice includes representation of employers in I-9, H-1B and H-2B, and anti-discrimination compliance audits conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour (DOL/WH), and Special Counsel for Immigration Related Discrimination within the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Pivec also represents employers in administrative and judicial appeals challenging civil money penalties, back pay and debarment orders arising out of agency compliance audits, as well as whistleblower matters arising under the 19 federal energy, environmental, financial fraud, food safety and consumer protection statutes enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor.