Continuation of post last week introducing various HR issues being addressed in Washington DC and providing more information on each topic.

Immigration reform has been on the Congressional back burner since bipartisan reform efforts died in the Summer of 2007. Now, Congress seems much more likely to impose a mandated, national verification system on employers, a temporary worker program with a path to citizenship for undocumented workers already here and to seek to allow the entry of a greater number of highly-skilled foreign workers. A more “punitive” model of immigration reform seems much less likely to pass Congress.