The big news today is that a San Francisco judge has indefinitely delayed the start of the Homeland Security rule on dealing with employees whose social security numbers do not match their name.
According to the new rule, employers and employees would have 90 days to fix the mis-match or the employer would need to terminate the employee. An unusual collection of interest groups sued to keep the rule from going into effect. The coalition group supporting the lawsuit includes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. –two groups normally not in agreement.
Judge Breyer delayed the rule taking effect as it would have huge ramifications for employers, without Homeland Security conducting required surveys to find the costs for small business. There is also some concern that the database used to clarify matches may have errors, which could impact legal employees who get caught up in the no-match panic.
You can read Judge Breyer’s response in the the New York Times article posted here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/washington/11nomatch.html?ref=us