DHS plan to throw Americans out of work comes under legal challenge: "

Civil and labor rights groups have filed a lawsuit against a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule that allows the Department to throw any US citizen or legal resident out of work using ‘no-match’ letters that inform an employer of alleged discrepancies between employee records and the Social Security Administration database, even when the government is responsible for the error.

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) and the Central Labor Council of Alameda County, along with other local labor movements, charged in the lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California that a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule will threaten jobs of US citizens and other legally authorized workers simply because of errors in the government’s inaccurate Social Security earnings databases.

Under the new rule scheduled to go into effect on September 14, many workers in the US could be required to be terminated if their erroneous SSA records are not fixed within 90 days of an SSA "no-match" letter being sent to an employer.

The rule is SSA intends to send out notices to employers enforcing the new rule beginning next Tuesday, September 4 and the new notices will be sent to approximately 140,000 employers, affecting about eight million employees.

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