CHEP Joins IMAGE program
CHEP, a pallet and container pooling services company in Orlando, recently 
announced its “formal partnership” with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I"CE") to follow hiring practices, train its staff, and use ICE’s Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers (“IMAGE”) to verify that its employees are lawfully authorized to work. The company signed for IMAGE last month at ICE's headquarters in Washington DC, committing the company to meeting the workforce compliance standards set by the program.
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The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council ("Councils") are proposing to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require certain contractors and subcontractors to use the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ ("USCIS") E-Verify system as the means of verifying that employees are eligible to work in the United States. Government agencies affected by the proposed are the Department of Defense (“DOD”), General Services Administration (“GSA”), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (“NASA”). The proposed rule states: "This rule proposes to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) to require that certain contracts contain a clause requiring that the contractor and certain subcontractors utilize the E-Verify System to verify employment eligibility of all newly hired employees of the contractor or subcontractor and all employees directly engaged in the performance of work in the United States under those contracts." Stay tuned, this is just the beginning. 