California’s 2017 Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA) restricts the ability of companies operating in the state to voluntarily cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officials, imposes mandatory employee notice requirements, and prohibits employers from re-verifying an employee’s employment eligibility unless required by federal law.
Since then, and by no coincidence, inspections of worksites across California by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the branch of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that enforces federal immigration law, have intensified, with several making national headlines.
As a result, California employers have been caught in between, sometimes unsure as to how to comply without violating either state or federal immigration requirements.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.