Business owners take wait and see stance over sanctions law

Source: Associated Press

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.27.2007

As the state's new employer sanctions law nears, thousands of businesses still haven't signed on.

Under the law, all employers must begin using E-Verify by Jan. 1 to check the employment eligibility of new hires.

If businesses fail to do so, they risk having their business licenses suspended or revoked if caught knowingly hiring illegal workers.

Many business owners have been waiting to see whether the law survives a legal challenge before signing up.

Read more: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/213558.php

If I submit an employment application to an employer, the last thing I'm giving him or her is permission to submit any information on it to any third party, there is privileged, private, sensitive information on that application. If he or she hires someone else, I want that application I gave him and all information on it shredded.

Presumably, E-verify would be able to tell who applied for a job to whom, and therefore they would be able, over time, to compile a vast database of information that each included citizen will never know about, nor receive any income from the use of such data should that ever occur in the future.

I presume E-verify is a costly service, but the article doesn't say one way or the other. Sounds to me like it's just another crony company scam that will make some information broker enough to live like a king in a small palace, and from which business owners will have to use a portion of the money they make from their employees labor to pay for, meaning they will have less left over for employee wages.

The article states that in order to accommodate all US employers using the system, additional investment is needed. Nice way of saying "we are not ready".