DirectEmployers Association has received confirmation that the E-verify applicability date for covered federal government contractors has been further extended from February 20, 2009 to May 21, 2009.  As previously reported, litigants in the court challenge to the regulations mandating use of the E-verify system for certain federal government contractors agreed to suspend applicability of the rule from its original implementation date of January 15, 2009, to February 20, 2009.  Yesterday, the litigants agreed to further extend the applicability date to May 21, 2009, and have asked the court to stay the proceeding to provide President Obama’s administration time to review the regulation.

Under the new applicability date, which is expected to appear in tomorrow’s Federal Register, any contracts entered into or modified prior to May 21, 2009, would not contain the contract clauses requiring the use of E-verify by certain federal government contractors to check employment eligibility of new hires, as well as existing employees assigned to work on federal contracts.

We will continue to keep you posted as matters related to E-verify continue to develop.

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BusinessWeek Economics Editor Peter Coy spoke with the best minds on Wall Street and in academia, labor, and corporate America to ask: How bad might the job market get and how long might it last?

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A survey, by the Chicago outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, marks November as the worst month for layoffs since January 2002, when large employers cut nearly 250,000 jobs as the nation was trying to shake off the prior-year recession and the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Challenger survey is not a statistical sample of all employers like the unemployment report that the Labor Department will issue Friday. But it is a good barometer of corporate hirings and firings that has kept a running tally of company-announced layoffs each month since 1993.

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