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March 9, 2021 By cs

E-Verify records purge scheduled for May 14

Each year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) purges records that are more than ten years old from its E-Verify system.

E-Verify is a web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their newly hired employees to work in the United States. The E-Verify system verifies information provided by employees on the Form I-9 against Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records.

The next records disposal, which will take place on May 14, 2021, will delete E-Verify records created on or before December 31, 2010. E-Verify employers have until May 14, 2021 to download case information if they want to retain information about these E-Verify cases. Instructions for downloading a Historic Records Report from E-Verify is available here.

Employers are required to record the E-Verify case verification number on the corresponding Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, or alternatively attach a copy of the case details page to Form I-9. If supplementing existing Forms I-9 with historical E-Verify data, employers should retain the Historic Records Report with their affected Forms I-9.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/e-verify-records-purge-scheduled-may-14-2021

May 9, 2017 By AMK

Reinforcing the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing in government contracts

The Court of Federal Claims has ruled that a contractor may continue to litigate its claim for breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing against a federal agency.

Last month, in CanPro Investments Ltd. v. United States, COFC No. 16-268C (April 2017), the Court of Federal Claims (COFC or “Court”) denied the Government’s motion for reconsideration and reaffirmed its prior decision that CanPro Investments Ltd. (CanPro) may continue to litigate its claim for breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing against the General Services Administration (GSA).

CanPro alleged that the Government breached the implied duty by receiving an unreasonable number of visitors at the building it leased from CanPro – and despite their being no specific contractual provision regulating the number of permitted visitors.

This decision is important because it reinforces the implied duty as a mechanism to protect a party’s reasonable expectations arising from a government contract.

In 2012, GSA leased certain office space in Boca Raton, Florida from CanPro for a local Social Security Administration (SSA) office. Although the lease included a release provision under which CanPro waived any claims arising from “the Government’s normal and customary use of the leased premises,” CanPro understood from GSA that visitors to the SSA during “peak times” would not exceed 250 per day. After the SSA’s West Palm Beach location closed, CanPro experienced an “overwhelming amount of visitors” to its Boca Raton building which, in turn, resulted in CanPro incurring significant additional expenses.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.insidegovernmentcontracts.com/2017/05/long-live-reasonableness-reinforcing-the-implied-duty-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing-in-government-contracts/

October 27, 2011 By AMK

House subpoenas four agencies for small-business noncompliance

Four federal agencies were issued subpoenas by the House Small Business Committee on Oct. 20 for not complying with the Small Business Act’s procurement policies, according to a committee staffer.

The departments of Justice, Agriculture, Treasury and State were summoned to appear before the the Small Business subcommittee on contracting and workforce on Nov. 1 to testify why they are in noncompliance.

At issue is the “structure” of these agencies’ Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Offices (OSDBU) and “the fact that they are not reporting to the agency head or deputy head,” wrote Darrell Jordon, house committee spokesman, in an e-mail to Washington Technology.

OSDBUs were conceived in 1978 with the purpose of having federal agencies set aside contracts for small and disadvantaged businesses. The Small Business Act also has requirements that agencies report their procurement activities with small and disadvantaged businesses.

Justice, Agriculture, Treasury and State were warned of their missteps and given a chance to remedy the situation after a June Government Accountability Office small business contracting report found seven agencies not in compliance.

Following that report, letters to agencies were sent by subcommittee Chairman Mick Mulvaney (R-SC). As a result, the Interior Department and Social Security Administration are now in compliance, and a third, the Commerce Department, was pardoned due to an administrative issue.

In September, agencies were reminded of their noncompliance by memo and a hearing was held on Sept. 15 by the subcommittee to examine the GAO report and the economic impact of noncompliance.

As part of the subpoena procedure, the four agencies must produce a number of documents, including paperwork relating to their small business procurement programs, attainment of small business goals or challenges to decisions not to restrict competition to small business between Jan. 20, 2009, and Sept. 30, 2011.

About the Author: Alysha Sideman is an online content producer with 1105 Government Information Group. Published by Washington Technology – Oct. 21, 2011 at http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/10/21/small-biz-committee-subpoenas.aspx

Each year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) purges records that are more than ten years old from its E-Verify system.

The Court of Federal Claims has ruled that a contractor may continue to litigate its claim for breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing against a federal agency.

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