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5 Things to Know About Conducting Background Checks in Texas
From access to major cities such as Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin and all they have to offer, to a wealth of jobs in energy, technology, financial services and agriculture, to...
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5 New Workplace Legal Hazards That You Can’t Afford to Ignore
A rapidly changing legal landscape is making the application, interview and screening processes increasingly complicated – and potentially dangerous for employers, which includes staffing firms and may...
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Ban the Box? In California, it Helped Let a Convicted Embezzler Get Hired
What do you get when you buy $320,000 worth of televisions, a hot tubs and gazebos and electronics, pornographic videos, handcuffs, chains and whips? Some might call that a great night. But when the...
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Tragic Lessons: What We Should Learn from the Naval Yard Shootings
Like a lot of people, I’ve been watching the news reports about this week’s shooting at the Washington Naval Yard. Aaron Alexis, now dead, is believed to have murdered 12 civilians before being shot...
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Do American Idol Background Checks Discriminate Against Minorities?
File this one away under the category of, “You Can’t Make this S%#* Up.” The EEOC has cleared the path for 10 former contestants of the show American Idol to sue the show’s producers for the...
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Background Checks? They’ll Be Hit by the Government Shutdown, Too
We’ve had a lot of questions over the past few days about whether employers that conduct background checks or background screening companies would be affected by the federal government shutdown. While...
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EEOC Ordered to Pay $750,000 For Overzealous Prosecution Tactics
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...
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Four Steps to Make Sure You Get Accurate Criminal Background Checks
After months of searching, you finally found the perfect candidate for your (insert job here) role. This guy or gal has everything you’re looking for: great experience, sterling references, and a...
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5 Rules to Guide You If You Do Background Checks on Job Candidates
By Eric B. Meyer Nearly half of employers investigate job applicants online. This is according to a CareerBuilder survey released last week. Of the 2,775 hiring managers polled, almost half (48...
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Illinois the Latest State to “Ban the Box” in Hiring Background Checks
The governor of Illinois has kept his promise to enact an administrative order, effectively “banning the box” for state workers. On Oct. 3, 2013, Gov. Pat Quinn signed an executive order providing that...
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Is Mickey in Trouble? Disney Defends Its Background Screening Policies
The company known for their signature character, Mickey Mouse, is defending a class action claim based on questions about its background screening policies. A lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co. was...
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How to Accidentally Hire a Convicted Felon
Does this sound like something that would never happen in your business? You might be right, but there is only one way to make sure. This is what happened to a small business I know… Like many small...
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Texas Takes on the EEOC Over Limits to Background Checks
Last week, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a legal action challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) “enforcement guidance” that limits the use of criminal records...
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State of Texas Takes Steps to Force Screening Obamacare Navigators
Our friends from the great state of Texas are in the news once again when it comes to employment background checks, and once again, their efforts are worthy of applause for those who support this...
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Bill Banning Credit Checks on Job Applicants Reintroduced in Senate
By Eric B. Meyer Second verse, same as the first. Back in March, I reported here that a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, known as the Equal Employment for All Act, would amend the...
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Why That Proposed Ban on Employment Credit Checks Will Fail
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA., has introduced a bill that will effectively bar employers from conducting credit checks on potential job candidates as part of the employment background screening process....
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Study Finds That (Surprise!) Facebook Alone Isn’t a Good Hiring Barometer
Here’s a scenario for all you human resource professionals out there: Let’s just say that most job candidates made their Facebook profiles public. Let’s say that most employers checked their job...
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There’s Still Time to Evaluate Your Background Screening Program in 2014
Let me officially be the last person to wish you a Happy New Year! I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. Why should you wait until January 1 to do something you should have...
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EEOC Fires Back Over Texas Lawsuit on Limits to Background Checks
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says that the state of Texas needs to work on its timing. The agency has filed a motion to dismiss in the lawsuit that Texas brought against the EEOC...
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Whole Foods Hit With Class Action Over Background Screening Process
Whole Foods Market was just inducted into a growing club where no one wants to be a member. The giant food retailer is the latest target of a class action lawsuit for alleged violations of the Fair...
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