Construction Law Report: Immigration and the Construction Industry - Summer 2008

Table of Contents:

• Do You Have an Authorized Workforce?
• Best Practices to Ensure an Authorized Workforce
• Preparing for the Worst – The Raid!
• Construction Practice Notices

Editors’ Note:

As if continuing tight credit and the increasing cost of materials were not bad enough, construction companies are facing greater scrutiny of their workforce. Enforcement activity at the worksite—both by federal and state agencies—has increased significantly, and the tactics deployed are increasingly aggressive.

This issue of the Construction Law Report focuses on potential workforce pitfalls and offers best practices to follow. Bottom line: to avoid becoming tomorrow’s headline, employers should get started today to develop a comprehensive workforce authorization compliance policy.

For more information about the matters discussed in this issue, please contact the authors, James King (jking@seyfarth.com), Nicole Kersey (nkersey@seyfarth.com), or any other member of Seyfarth’s Business Immigration Group (www.seyfarth.com/businessimmigration).

 

Roger L. Price
Mark L. Johnson

Construction Group References

The following reference materials have been published recently by the Construction Group:

• 2008 Fifty State Lien Law Notice Requirements
• Construction Law Report Special Edition November 2007 AIA’s New Form A201™-2007 General Conditions
• Construction Law Report Special Edition March 2008 A Comparison of the New ConsensusDOCS™ and AIA® Construction Forms