This Act shields employers from liability if they have made a good-faith effort to verify a new employee’s identity and employment eligibility, and were subsequently found to have committed a technical or procedural error in the identification. If a violation is found, an employer will have ten business days in which to correct the violation. Non-compliance penalties were greatly increased over those of earlier legislation; in particular, employers can now incur a penalty for each paperwork violation, rather than in total, so the potential fines are much higher.
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act