Brace yourself for more government scrutiny of your workforce in the new year. With October's release of the Supplemental Final Rule, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has renewed its commitment to bar illegal immigrants from the workplace. Thelatest DHS effort follows a previous attempt, proposed in June 2006, which was delayed last year following a preliminary injunction by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. "The additional information in this supplemental rule addresses the specific items that the court raised, and we expect to be able to quickly implement it," says DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.
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