There was a very interesting article in Sunday's Arizona Republic stating that the new employer-sanctions hiring law only applies to hires made after January 1st, 2008. A link the full article can be found here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1118pearce1118.html.

We spent the past couple of months auditing our workforce retroactively to insure that we are compliant with the new law for all of our current employees, but now I am wondering if this was even necessary. Don't get me wrong, I am glad that we took the steps to insure we are compliant for all employees, but it does make me think...