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In California, the state labor law on new employee hire reporting has set up what is called the New Employee Registry. This is a simple list that the state uses to compare their information against the National Directory of New Hires, in order to catch parents who are running from their child support payment.

Here’s an interesting fact for why the labor law must be set up this way— about one in three parents who do not pay their child support payments do not live in the same state as their child. Hence, there is this need to cross compare all of the new hire information coming from all of the states, thanks to the federal change in the employee hiring labor law.

The labor law in California also makes it required, since the start of 2001, that employers and government agencies report information on the independent contractors that they hire too. That way, they are using an even finer tooth comb to track parents who aren’t making payments, via the New Employee Registry.

As with other states that follow the general guidelines set up by the federal labor law, the California new hire reporting regulations require that employers send in the information on their new hires within 20 days. But California makes it so it is 20 days after the actual start of work of the employee, meaning the first day that the employee actually starts work, compared with the day that the person was hired.

Under the Cali labor law, you can also choose which state to report all of your new hires in if you are a multistate employer. In that case, you can report all your new employees—no matter what state they are hired in—to just one state that you have an office in. That makes it easier on your human resource administrators to get all of the new hire forms together.

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