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What if an employer fails to follow all of these labor laws for new hire reporting, or what if an employer just chooses not to do all of the new hire reporting called for by the labor laws?

In that case, at least in the state of Florida, the state has the option to come after you. They can do so because the federal organization in charge of all the new hire reports across the country—the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, or OCSE—provides the state of Florida every business quarter with a report that contains information on all employers there who may or may not be reporting new hires as per the law.

The state of Florida then uses the quarterly reports to contact all of those employers who appear to be not following the laws. Consider the letter a warning, and a friendly reminder of what the labor law calls for when it comes to reporting new hires and re-hires. Follow these laws going forward, and you and the state of Florida will get a long.

If you don’t, the state withholds the right to punish and fine you for your infractions. The state can fine employers up to $25 for each new hire not reported. If the state finds that the employer and the employee conspired to break the labor law and knew exactly what they were doing, then the state can fine you up to $500 per employee. That isn’t chump change for a small employer, and for big employers with thousands of employees, those fines can surely add up.

One of the reasons that Florida sends out the warning letter first is that you could be considered noncompliant with the law even if you are sending in new hire information to the state—if that information is inaccurate. Again, we run into another example of hwy proper employee files organization and human resource forms are so important.

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