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Let’s get back to basics here, folks. New hire reporting, as established by the Oklahoma labor law, is meant so that you the employer send in information to the state on all of your new hires. All of the information that you send in to the state of Oklahoma is used to compare the new hire data with information that state officials have on child support rolls.

They compare the child support lists with their new hire lists and look for matches. Then they track down the parents, establish what to do with them, or decide if there was already some sort of police or court order out there for these folks. The state of Oklahoma also can use the new hire information to track down people who are getting unemployment benefits or some other public assistance when they shouldn’t be. (If somebody is a new hire, of course, they shouldn’t be getting unemployment benefits obviously.)

Once Oklahoma is done with this information, they pass on their new hire reports to the National Directory of New Hires. The feds do the same thing—compare their child support records against the new hire reports from Oklahoma and the 49 other states, as well as Washington DC and the U.S. territories, and they can then spot a parent who isn’t paying their child support no matter what state they are in.

The whole question then comes back to Oklahoma employers: Is this whole new hire reporting process more trouble than good for them? As you can tell from my past blogs, employers should have their human resource information in order in the first place, and if that is true, then providing the names, addresses, and social security numbers of all their new employees shouldn’t be a hassle.

In Oklahoma (OK) we have a great department of human resources. They are responsible for the implementation as well as the enforcement of all of our labor laws. This department is also responsible for finding solutions to our unemployment issues in our state as well as determining what are needs will be in the future as far as employers and employees in order to help maintain a healthy economy for our state as well as ourselves.

In Oklahoma our unemployment rate has made a nosedive from 5.9% to 4.0% in a matter of just three short years. In comparison to many states that is an incredible number and then when you compare the fact that our unemployment rate is well below the national average of 4.8% that makes those numbers just that much more impressive. This has been done primarily through two different approaches. The first is the creation of over 86,000 new jobs since June of 2003. The second has been the use of money from the federal government to establish and upgrade our one stop job training centers so as to allow the people who are unemployed the ability to acquire a new set of skills in order for them to be reinserted into the workplace.

However it is not all about unemployment for us in Oklahoma. We are concerned about our workplace safety as well and the department of human resources is responsible for making this happen as well. They have created and established rules and guidelines as far as workplace safety as well as enforcing these rules for our benefit. They are also responsible for overseeing that we abide by all of the rules in regards to labor laws in regards to both adults and minors alike. They are there to make us feel good about working in or working for someone in Oklahoma.