GT Ready to Help Utah Employers Comply with E-Verify Mandate
21 May 2010
The Utah State Legislature made it mandatory for all employers with 15 or more employees to use E-Verify for employment verification starting July 1, 2010. Everyone expected Utah Governor Gary Herbert to call a special session to revise the law to make it voluntary for one year and then mandatory starting July 1, 2011. However, the Governor has decided that no special session will be called. The deadline will remain July 1, 2010.
Though it is unclear what non-compliance means with this new law, many companies do not want to find themselves not complying with a state mandate. This leaves many employers asking the questions:
- What is E-Verify?
- How do I use it?
- What does this mean to my organization?
We have provided services to our customers that are Federal contractors as they have complied with the Federal mandate for contractors to use E-Verify. The two largest universities in Utah, Brigham Young University and the University of Utah, use Gideon Taylor expertise and solutions for E-Verify. Additionally, Gideon Taylor has been using E-Verify internally since the end of 2008. Now Gideon Taylor is ready to help any company in Utah that needs help with understanding E-Verify.
John Woodrum, Chief Operating Officer of Gideon Taylor, said, "We have been getting calls from many companies who just don't understand what E-Verify is and how to get started. We have responded to this call for help. We are tapping our expertise to get companies up and running quickly. For most businesses, we can have them using E-Verify in just two days." See more information about our service offering on our website.
Contact Gideon Taylor to find out how they can help you today!
Maricopa Community Colleges Set ePAF™ Go-Live Record
18 May 2010
The Maricopa Community College District (MCCD) will go live tomorrow morning with a powerful Job Change eForm after less than six project weeks, marking the fastest yet that a major ePAF™ form has been brought to production. In those six weeks, the joint MCCD-Gideon Taylor (GT) project team has successfully completed Discovery, Design, Development, Unit and User Acceptance Testing, as well as significant training.
The Job Change eForm, as customized by the project team, will automate all Job Data change actions. Some special features include simplified earnings distributions, grant-related "special funding," internal transfers, and "renewals" - essentially the annual rehire of employees in temporary positions.
Renewals alone account for 1,000 transactions per year. By replacing a previously paper-based distribution process with email notifications, the eForm will eliminate 3,000 pages annually. Even more impressive is the time savings. After being trained on the new Job Change eForm, one tester said, "I can now do in 30 seconds what used to take me 40 minutes." Even just at this one stage in the Renewal process, 650 hours will be saved every year!
The rapid move to Production will allow for a huge performance boost during MCCD's fiscal year cutover on July 1. The project team will now turn their attention to the Status Change eForm and to Governing Board Agenda automation that will make an onerous, State-mandated business process quick, efficient and automatic.
Congratulations to MCCD and the GT team on a record-setting performance!
BYU Implements GT Paperless I-9™
10 May 2010
Brigham Young University has chosen to implement Gideon Taylor's GT Paperless I-9™ solution, automating employment verification and completing the move to completely paperless hires for much of their employee population.
BYU has been using ePAF™ since 2005 with great success. The GT Paperless I-9™ will further streamline the hiring business process.
BYU is gradually rolling GT Paperless I-9™ out to the campus community. Staff and faculty began using the solution in late March, students in April, and the Department of Continuing Education will go live soon.
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