A new Georgia law that will require employers to verify their workers' immigration status or risk severe penalties has some worried about the state's construction industry. Public employers, contractors and subcontractors with at least 500 employees will have to comply starting in 2007. One construction executive says the law "doesn't fix the fact that we need foreign workers who need to be legitimized as a whole, and it doesn't fix the fact that we are one of the many industries dependent on them."
June 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Centex Construction Vice President Jeff George estimates that a typical $20 million project employs 500 to 700 manual laborers — 30 percent to 40 percent of whom speak English as a second language.
George says he doesn’t know if any of those workers are in the country illegally. His subcontractors have reported the workers as legitimate.
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