WisEmployment.com Blog

Beginning Feb. 2, 2009 all employers must use the revised I-9 form. This form is required for all newly hired employees to verify their identity and authorization to work in the United States. The list of documents that employees can use to verify their identity and employment authorization is divided into three sections:

List A-Documents that verify both identity and employment authorization
List B-documents that verify identity only; and List C documents that verify employment authorization only.

From List A-expired documents are no longer acceptable for proof of identification or work authorization. Only unexpired documents or documents without an expiration date (such as a social security card) will be accepted.

The list of documents on the back of the Form I-9 have been revised to add the new U.S. Passport Card to List A. In addition, two other documents have been added to List.

Several now obsolete forms of the employment authorization document have been removed from the list. (Form I-688, Temporary Resident Card; Form I-688A, Employment Authorization Card; and Form I-688B, Employment Authorization Card).

Employers who do not begin using the new I-9 form by February 2, 2009 may be subject to fines. Employers will not need to complete a new form I-9 for all employees-only for new hires and re-verifications.

After Feb 9 you will be able to download the revised form on the US Citizenship and Immigration Services website.

The new Wisconsin Employment Resource site WisEmployment.com went live on Dec 5. If you haven’t visited it already, please do so. We are adding resources to it weekly!

Within the coming days we will be re-launching WisEmployment.com,  Wisconsin’s Employment Resource website.  WisEmployment is for HR professionals, employers, and job seekers. It features articles, news, webcasts, events, white papers, templates, forms and best practices on leadership, performance management, organizational development, and benefits. The resources on the site are meant to aid both the employer and the job seeker.

Employers are already able to post free job opportunity ads at theBubbler.com (scroll to the bottom for the employment categories).  When WisEmployment goes live, these jobs will be available for job seekers on both theBubbler.com and WisEmployment.com giving your free adspace double exposure.

Along with job opportunities the site will have valuable job finding and career building resources.

Be watching for the new Wisemployment coming soon!  In the mean time employers post a free job postings at theBubbler.com!

Oct 31 marked thirtieth anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.  What the act basically did was gave equal rights to women before during and after pregnancy.  The law does not permit employers to refuse to hire a pregnant woman or to make assumptions about their inability to carry out certain tasks.

It is a shame that even 30 years later women are still discriminated against when it comes to health care costs.  Maybe not by employers….but by the health care system.  Basically if you have female parts, your health insurance rates are 2-3 times that of a man’s.  I am the operations manager at a small company.  On our current health plan a 30 year old male employee pays roughly $115 for insurance per month.  A female employee of the same age pays $280.  Premiums are based on the group medical uses, so it isn’t because of her health.

There has been talk about forcing employers to help pay for health insurance.  It seems obvious to me that if they enforce employer paid health insurance, what you will end up with is a bunch of unemployed women.  Small to medium sized business will quickly realize that men are cheaper than women.

It doesn’t even matter if a woman can’t medically have children.  The costs are still the same.

Maybe half the cost of the pregnancy should go on the father’s health insurance.  After all…the baby is half his…