Human Resource New Hire Reporting in Michigan

December 14th, 2006 Posted by Mark

The question that I have been getting from a lot of employers about this new hire reporting process is all about the time frame. We all know, after me telling it to you over and over for the past few days, that the original federal law behind this new hire reporting came about in 1996. And after that, in the following couple years, every state in the Union followed suit by passing a similar law in their state legislatures. So usually these laws came about in the state level in 1997 or in 1998.

In Michigan, for instance, the law was put in effect on October 1, 1997. The question then from my employers has been: do we need to go back and report “new” hires that joined our company in 1996, say, or 1990. Back then, they were considered new hire (of course, they aren’t anymore), but does the law, in other words, have a retroactive effect.

The simple answer to that in Michigan, and I suspect in all or at least most states, is no. Michigan state only requires that employees that have been hired after the signing of the law in 1997 be reported. And as this point, hopefully all employers are caught up and only have to report those employees who are truly new to their organization.

Of course, as in most other states, the definition of what consists of a new employee in Michigan is pretty broad. It includes part timers and full timers, permanent employees and temporary employees. It even includes employees that you thought were going to be permanent but ended up quitting (or getting fired) before you even had the chance to report them as new hires. You still have to, even after they leave. Even new re-hires are to be reported.

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