A new piece of legislation would require all Missouri-based employers to use a federal verification system to ensure that employees are legal residents or face steep fines and even business license suspensions.
Last week, state Representative Mark Parkinson (R-St.Charles) introduced House Bill 235, a legislative measure that would effectively change the laws regarding work authorization in Missouri. It mandates any employer public or private to use E-Verify, a federal program operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies that can verify the work authorization of newly hired employees pursuant to federal law, the bills language reads.
