Excerpted from HR Technologist By Marco Piovesan Unemployment claims have fallen to their lowest level in fifty years. This has been driven in part by the recent boom in the technology and gig industries. Finding work is faster and easier than...
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GroupOne Background Screening is headed north to the Oklahoma Human Resources Council (OKHR) Annual Conference & Expo, May 8-10 at the Embassy Suites in Norman, Oklahoma. The OKHR Conference will connect you to valuable resources and people...
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Excerpted from azcentral.com By Lauren Castle In Arizona, child-care centers and many day camps must do criminal background checks on staff. But there is no such requirement for overnight camps. Arizona is one of 18 states that do not require...
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Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle By Megan Cassidy Nearly 1,000 men and women in California prisons overdosed last year and required emergency medical attention in what officials acknowledge is part of an alarming spike in opioid use by...
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Excerpted from Longview News Journal By Jimmy Daniell Isaac Harrison County Sheriff’s Office officials say they stringently check employment backgrounds before hiring applicants, but what happened when Roger Valentine was hired six years ago is a...
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Excerpted from JDSUPRA By Husch Blackwell LLP Consistent with the cliché that “everything’s bigger in Texas,” the Texas legislature has introduced not one, but two separate bills relating to the privacy of personal information. Although still in...
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Excerpted from HR Dive By Lisa Burden Dive Brief: • American Pride Waste Solutions, Inc., has agreed to pay $32,500 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit alleging it refused to interview a qualified, female candidate for a driving job. • The...
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Excerpted from 3TV/CBS 5 By Morgan Loew The number of people caught cheating on employer-required drug tests rose by 40% from 2017 to 2018, according to figures compiled by Quest Diagnostics. “This is common,” said Tim Terrill, the...
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Excerpted from SHRM Blog By Christina Melton Crain,Esq. There is no doubt that the success of a company is determined by those it employs; thereby making acquisition of the appropriate and necessary talent a key priority for any business...
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Excerpted from Law.com By Greg Land Two pending class action lawsuits accusing Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using flawed background reports to reject job applicants are being combined in the...
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Excerptd from The Seattle Times By Margot Roosevelt When Rye Electric was founded in Orange County, California, five years ago, it screened all prospective workers for drugs. If a test showed traces of cannabis, the applicant was nixed. But the...
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Excerpted from The Breeze By Mitchell Sasser JMU’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a national grassroots organization that recognizes the threat posed by the war on drugs, hosted “Ban the Box in Virginia Higher Education” April 16...
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