When hiring new workers. businesses must take two steps under this bill: First. examine each Job applicants documents to verify that the applicant is a legal worker. and second. maintain records and documents for up to 5 years on each employee hired if a business hires more than three workers. As the Heritage Bulletin points out: The law would apply equally to Wall Street banks hiring Harvard MBAs and to California hotels hiring bellboys and dishwashers. While (the bill] technically would make this optional. in fact. failure to keep employee records would constitute a legal presumption of guilt for businesses discovered to have an illegal alien in their employment. Not only are we asking employers to become police officers when a Federal agency already exists to enforce our immigration policy. we are also creating for them a set of verification and paperwork requirements which go beyond the onerous. This will have a drastic effect on every part of the business sector. Additionally. the small businessmen and women of Idaho and the Nation will be harmed disproportionately by these sanctions because. as the Small Business Administration stated in its 1984 report. "The State of Small Business." small business percentage of Hispanic workers is almost twice that of large businesses: 6.5 percent as compared to 3.5 percent.
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