Few Utah Businesses Have Complied with Mandatory E-Verify Enrollment

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, since the July 1, 2010, effective date of a Utah law requiring businesses with 15 or more employees to verify new hires’ work status through E-Verify, less than one-third have done so. The figure did not surprise Utah Governor Gary Herbert, who stated that even the law’s sponsor did not expect universal compliance. Some suggest that employers either do not know about the new requirement to use the federal electronic employment verification system, or are not hiring due to poor economic conditions, which could explain the low enrollment numbers.