Excerpted from VentureBeat by Kyle Wiggers Lyft is beefing up its driver background check process with two new features it says are intended to “[improve] the safety and security of [its] platform.” It today announced continuous background checks...
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Excerpted from HR Dive By Valerie Bolden-Barrett Dive Brief: • While some employers choose to screen employees continuously, checking that nothing has changed since they hired workers, their numbers remain small. Just 4% of 6,500 HR professionals...
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Excerpted from a Fisher Phillips blog by Felix Digilov The Texas Legislature does not officially convene until Jan. 8, 2019. But during the week of Nov. 12, Texas lawmakers got off to a furious start and submitted more than 600 bills to be...
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Excerpted from an Albany Herald story by Jennifer Parks The SOWEGA Council on Aging’s recent announcement about the anticipated change to the Meals on Wheels program made note of a policy requirement of the Georgia Department of Human Services...
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Excerpted from an SHRM Blog by Eva Del Rio Q: What do you think about offbeat interview questions such as “Tell me a joke” or “If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it...
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It is growing more and more common today for employers to conduct a background check on potential candidates before hiring. Simply put, background checks are reviews of criminal, personal and financial records of a potential hire for your...
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Excerpted from a Ledger-Enquirer story by Mark Rice A Columbus, Georgia private school has decided to start drug-testing its oldest students. Brookstone School announced Wednesday that the drug-testing of students in grades 8-12 will be voluntary...
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Excerpted from an SHRM Blog by Allen Smith The number of people identifying as “gender-nonbinary”—meaning, as neither male nor female—is on the rise, shifting the diversity conversation and raising new compliance challenges...
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In conjunction with the 2017 National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) Annual Conference, GroupOne and NAPBS is asking you to participate in a grassroots effort and to email your Representative today and ask them to...
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GroupOne Executive Director Danny Davila will serve as the keynote speaker during a Dallas-Fort Worth Healthcare Human Resources Association (DFWHHRA) luncheon on Friday, October 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Texas Star Conference Center...
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GroupOne’s background reporting system remains on the cutting edge thanks to Accio Data. This week it was learned the system is flexible enough to integrate with 70 percent of the applicant tracking systems on the market. A great achievement, no...
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Excerpted from courthousenews.com, by Nicholas Iovino Drivers who lost their jobs last year when Uber pulled out of Austin, Texas, asked a federal judge on June 15 to nullify arbitration clauses that would block them from suing the ride-hailing...
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