Fake ID’s
By Randall Barker, Vice President of Human Resources - A Plus Benefits
One of the things we see on a regular basis when working with our clients in the hiring process is an abundance of fake identifications. When most people think of fake ID’s they think of high school kids or underage kids acquiring and using fake ID’s to buy alcohol but it might even be more prevalent with job seekers than business owners realize. In fact, we represent over 600 businesses and we run into this problem on a daily basis.
In my experience the attempts to fool a potential employer are poorly executed but have a very high rate of success simply because most businesses are not equipped or trained properly on how to identify a fake ID.
One of the first things a business does upon hiring a new employee is to gather a copy of a driver’s license and or other forms of ID such as a social security card, green card or passport. You’d be surprised, but we’ve had employees submit green cards that were ungluing, a male ID card that had a picture of a woman and even a driver’s license from Arizona with Tucson misspelled with a “Z” and the state abbreviation wrongly listed as AR instead of AZ.
In these cases nobody at the business noticed that there was anything wrong.
We are advising our clients to sign up for E-Verify. We have signed up to be a third party agent for E-Verify and provide E-Verify for our clients at no additional cost. There are some who make a lot of noise about E-Verify being ineffective, this has not been our experience. E-Verify is fast and efficient. In the past year we have submitted well over a thousand names to E-Verify and have been made aware of only one mistake in the system. That’s a good record for E-Verify. All Utah employers with 15 or more employees or required to use E-Verify starting July1, 2010
About the Author
Randall Barker is Vice President of Human Resources at A Plus Benefits and has been with the company for over 14 years. He has been involved in human resources for over 20 years and is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and Certified Employment Law Specialist (CELS). He received his master’s degree from the University of Phoenix and has taught Human Resource classes at a local college. He has extensive experience with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and has successfully managed more than 80 discrimination claims for A Plus Benefits clients during the past 14 years in Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado.
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