Excerpted from a Idaho State Journal story Idaho parents likely have an assumption that when their children join a high school sports team, the people doing the coaching are not convicted felons. But because of a variety of flaws in how the state...
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Excerpted from a News 13 WLOS story by Jennifer Emert While parents in Asheville, North Carolina might assume teachers go through rigorous background checks, a News 13 investigation uncovers that’s not necessarily the case. The State Department...
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Excerpted from a Top Class Actions blog by Christina Davis A job seeker says that fast food giant McDonald’s violates federal law when it conducts background checks on applicants. According to plaintiff Danny O’Neill, he and other job seekers...
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Excerpted from an 11ABC News story by Randall Yip and Michael Finney It’s fairly well known that Proposition 64 made recreational marijuana use legal in California, but there’s one aspect of the law many may not know. Employers can...
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GroupOne Background Screening will be hosting a booth during the HR in Indian Country Conference, August 23-24 at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. The HR in Indian Country Conference confronts the unique challenges and opportunities...
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Excerpted from a KMIRNBC story by Daytona Everett The California Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires employers to obtain workers’ permission before hiring a company to check their backgrounds. The court in a unanimous ruling on...
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The hijacking of an empty commercial airliner at Seattle’s SeaTac Airport on August 10 suggests an urgent need to review pre-employment background screening policies. When an event this shocking occurs, one involving supposed weak screening...
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Excerpted from The Atlantic story by Alia Wong The nonprofit organization behind the Common Application, a single form that students can fill out to apply to any college that uses it, announced this week that, starting next year, it will no...
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Excerpted from a New York Post story by Bruce Golding, Rich Calder and Max Jaeger The city’s child-welfare department has for years failed to conduct required criminal background checks on prospective employees — such as the convicted murderer...
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Excerpted from a Women’s Health story by Korin Miller Even if you’ve never touched an illicit drug, it’s easy for the paranoid part of your brain to worry that somehow, some way, something is going to show up on a drug test. Unfortunately...
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Excerpted from a CNBC story by Natalie Daher In April, Uber announced it will be tightening background checks for its drivers. This comes after a stream of sexual misconduct allegations within the company and more than 100 Uber drivers allegedly...
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Excerpted from kctv5.com story by Kelli Taylor Not long ago the city approved an ordinance removing criminal history off of job applications for Kansas City employers. On Thursday, they voted to take salary history off applications for city jobs...
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