Excerpted from a National Law Review story On January 29, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled that an employer violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by providing a background check disclosure form that included...
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Excerpted from a Lexington Herald-Leader story by Valerie Honeycutt Spears A new background check law that caused headaches for Kentucky school districts and businesses and an apparent additional 40,000 inquiries to the Cabinet for Health and...
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Excerpted from a Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP blog by Karen Jennings Evans and Robert T. Dumbacher The presence of alcohol in offices has ebbed and flowed over time and largely depended on the type of business, from drink carts in advertising...
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Does your company complete a background check only when you hire a new employee? Should you consider continuous screening of your employees during the year? Good questions all, and GroupOne Background Screening is here to assist. Performing...
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The arrest of an El Paso man on theft charges has led residents to question how the city screens people who are coordinating sports teams that use city-owned facilities. Jose Luis Ochoa was arrested January 5 and accused of accepting hundreds of...
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Excerpted from an HR Dive blog by Jennifer Carsen A California district court has certified a class of approximately 5 million people who once applied to Walmart in a suit alleging background check violations (Pitre v. Walmart Stores, Inc., No...
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Excerpted from a Fisher Broyles blog by Amy Epstein Gluck The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is taking on Chili’s. No, it’s not because a server added salt to a margarita when a customer specifically asked for no salt. Rather, the ACLU...
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Excerpted from a Business 2 Community story by Brett McIntyre Any company that strives for diversity on their team or does business internationally may come across making an offer to a candidate that has lived, worked, or was born outside of the...
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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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