Electronic Filing

Electronic Filing and Access. (a) The Secretary shall establish by regulation a plan for switching from hard copy filing of documents to electronic filing of documents at the Department in order to reduce paperwork and the cost of administration of the requirements with respect to foreign national workers in the Commonwealth. Employers with one-hundred or more employees shall be converted to electronic filing by 2010. Employers with more than fifty but fewer than one-hundred employees shall be converted to electronic filing by 2012. Employers with fifty or fewer employees shall be converted to electronic filing as prescribed by regulations. (b) The Secretary shall establish by regulation a plan for access via the Internet for employers and foreign national workers to revised statutes and regulations, announcements, notices, opinions and orders, and public data from the Department. The plan shall also include secure access to data pertaining to individual employers or foreign national workers for purposes of updating, correction, or supplementation of the Department's records. Source: PL 15-108, § 4(4971), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission deleted figures that repeated written words in the above section pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(e).