Excerpted from a ThinkProgress blog by Casey Quinlan The Trump administration wants to encourage states to conduct drug tests for people seeking unemployment insurance — a practice labor and drug policy experts largely agree is costly for states...
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We will not be the first to say this, but we’ll say it anyway. Social Media is not a passing fad. Policies and laws involving social media are constantly evolving and, in many cases, brand new. When looking for job candidates, does using social...
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Excerpted from an HR Dive blog by Jennifer Carsen Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to provide approximately 44,000 applicants with a stand-alone background check disclosure, in...
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Excerpted from a FOX KTVU news story by Candice Nguyen A Danville, California couple is questioning the vetting process of walkers hired through a popular dog-walking app after home video appears to capture a man kicking and whipping their family...
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Excerpted from a Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP blog by Lee Geiger The government shutdown is entering yet another week with no end in sight. About 800,000 federal employees have been furloughed or are working without pay. For those wondering...
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Excerpted from a Colorado Independent story by Alex Burness In 2016 and 2017, Colorado’s legislature took up the question of whether to prohibit employers from asking job applicants up-front about their criminal records. Both times, committees in...
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Excerpted from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story by Bill Schackner A legal dispute more than three years old between Pennsylvania’s state university system and its faculty union may come to a head in the coming months as the state Supreme Court...
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Excerpted from an azcentral story by Russ Wiles A dispute over immigration is at the crux of the government shutdown, but the impasse also has halted the E-Verify service run by the federal government that is designed to discourage the hiring of...
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With the new year comes a new Congress, an ongoing government shutdown and rumblings of the first campaign announcements for 2020. With more voters participating in last year’s election than ever before, employers should be prepared to handle...
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What is the “Seven-year Rule?” When reading the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), you see that it allows non-conviction criminal information to be reported for up to seven years. A question that often comes up is, when does the seven-year count...
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Excerpted from a krqe.com story by Allison Martinez A New Mexico lawmaker is proposing a bill to help ex-convicts find work by getting rid of a certain question on job applications. After the bill was vetoed last year, legislators went back to...
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Excerpted from a Burns & Levinson LLP blog by Kelly Kirby While employee reviews have obvious benefits for Human Resources, implementing a policy that ensures such reviews are well-crafted and accurate go a long way toward insulating the...
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