Companies Seek Reprieve From In-Person Work Verification Mandate

Employers are urging the Biden administration to temporarily extend pandemic-era remote employment verification options until the completion of a new regulation that would them permanent.

Companies’ ability to complete the I-9 employment verification form remotely was one of the silver linings of Covid workplace disruptions. With that option set to expire later this summer, employers that had adjusted to a new remote reality are sprinting to complete in-person document reviews for scores of workers hired over the past three years.

Failure to complete those in-person reviews before the Aug. 30 deadline for remote, or mostly remote, workers hired over the ...