Navigating Immigration Compliance and Enforcement in the Workplace

Feb 18, 2025
By Jen Lambert, Lia ElliottVerstelafrom , Staffing GC

Overview

With a new administration in the White House, there is a renewed focus on workplace immigration enforcement and compliance. Employers need to stay informed and prepared for potential regulatory changes, workplace visits from immigration enforcement agencies, and evolving compliance expectations.

This webinar, led by Lia Elliott, Attorney and Co-Managing Partner at Staffing GC, and Jenifer Lambert, Chief Strategy Officer at Verstela, will provide practical strategies to help employers and HR professionals navigate these complexities with confidence.

What You Will Learn:

  • Preparation Strategies – How to proactively ensure your workplace is compliant and prepared in case of an immigration enforcement visit.
  • Handling Workplace Inspections – What to expect during an ICE or immigration enforcement visit, best practices for responding, and how to protect the rights of your organization and employees.
  • Navigating Employee Conversations – Approaches for discussing immigration-related concerns in the workplace, fostering a compliant, informed, and supportive work environment.

This session will provide actionable insights and compliance tools to help your organization remain aligned with U.S. employment eligibility laws while navigating shifting enforcement priorities.

Who Should Attend:

HR professionals, compliance officers, business owners, and anyone responsible for managing or overseeing employment eligibility and legal compliance within their organization.

About the speaker

Jen Lambert

Verstela

Jenifer is the Chief Strategy Officer of Verstela, one of the fastest growing staffing firms in North America and a recipient of the Best of Staffing award for client satisfaction scores in the top 2% of the U.S. fourteen years running. Jen and her team provide staffing, recruiting and consultation to clients across broad industries and talent categories including manufacturing, distribution/logistics, call center, technology and engineering.

Lia Elliott

Staffing GC

Lia Elliott is an attorney and C-Suite advisor with 20+ years of boots-on-the-ground executive and legal experience in the workforce solutions and staffing industry. Lia is solutions-focused and works with clients to achieve business objectives while aligning legal compliance within risk tolerance and budget. A constant critical thinker and firm believer that “no” is seldom the answer, Lia simplifies legal complexities enabling growth in a mine-filled environment.

An accomplished executive and attorney, Lia’s diverse experience in both the practice of law and executive management offers unique value-add legal solutions to her clients.

Prior to launching Staffing GC, Lia served for 15 years as General Counsel to one of the largest U.S. light industrial staffing and workforce solutions firms. Lia served on the Executive Committee and partnered with the board of directors, officers, shareholders and other cross-functional team leadership to help grow and scale the staffing firm from a $160MM company to a nearly $1B enterprise with more than 250 service locations, 130,000+ contingent employees assigned across more than 6,000 diverse client facilities and 1,000 internal corporate employees. Lia led legal strategy, compliance, litigation management, department operations and implemented enterprise-wide systems, solutions, procedures and programs to protect profit and reduce risk. Her C-Suite experience coupled with in-depth understanding of the staffing industry present a value adding combination to organizations.

Lia is a committed community leader in her inspirational hometown of Columbus, Indiana. She serves on the boards of Community Animal Rescue Effort, Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce and the Columbus Visitors Center. She also volunteers as a foster and has rescued/placed hundreds of animals.

Lia holds a Juris Doctor from Valparaiso University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science, Business from Purdue University.

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