Back in 2011, a federal judge ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to reimburse the staffing company, PeopleMark, for over $750,000 worth of legal fees and expert witness costs it incurred as a result of overzealous prosecution tactics concerning their employment background check practices.
The premise of the case (EEOC v. PeopleMark, Inc.) was the EEOC’s contention that PeopleMark automatically rejected candidates that had criminal records. Even worse was that they ignored evidence that would have torpedoed their case. (more…)