Excerpted from BOSS Magazine By BOSS Editorial Team Not long ago, even the most minor hires held a lot of gravity. You would spend time tracking down the right person or company, do your due diligence, and meet with them in person. However...
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Excerpted from HR Dive By Valerie Bolden-Barrett Dive Brief: • In the past decade, employers resolving class-action lawsuits over alleged background check violations paid out a total of $174 million, a new compilation of court records showed. •...
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Excerpted from The Oakland Press By Mark Cavitt Oakland County has “banned the box.” On June 12, the county board of commissioners approved a resolution, by party line vote, that prohibits the county from inquiring about...
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Excerpted from Inc. By Suzanne Lucas Nevada wasn’t the first state to approve recreational marijuana usage, but it is the first to make it illegal to discriminate against users. That’s not the language used in the bill, but...
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Excerpted from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Marlon A. Walker A lawsuit was filed in Clayton County Superior Court on behalf of a longtime Clayton County Public Schools educator who alleges school district officials are trying to terminate...
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Excerpted from The Sacramento Bee By Michael McGough For some of its participants, drug screenings at Burning Man would pretty much defeat the purpose of the 9½-day event. But that’s one of several changes the Bureau of Land Management could...
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Excerpted from SHRM Blog By David Kovacovich We’ve been tackling culture within organizations since the turn of the century when the pendulum began to swing from micro-management to employee empowerment. Companies like Zappos and Google put...
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Here at GroupOne Background Screening, we receive daily questions on a number of issues, but one of the most common is if a background check will reveal a Chapter 7 bankruptcy? If so, from how long ago? The simple answer is, yes bankruptcies can...
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Excerpted from KPCW By Renai Bodley Miller The driver of a Park City bus is suspected of driving under the influence after the bus went off the road Saturday morning. Only the driver and a passenger were on board, and neither one was injured...
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Excerptd from FOXSanAntonio By Jordan Bontke As the City of Leander is preparing for demonstrators for an upcoming drag queen story time event, the pastor of the hosting church said the city needs a progressive worship space. On Saturday, Ryan...
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Excerpted from Lexology By Brandi L. Doniere and Kerri L. Keller The #MeToo movement began to spread on social media in 2017, fueled by the improprieties of Roger Ailes, Harvey Weinstein and others in the public eye that came to light. The flood...
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Excerpted from The SHRM Blog By Tim Sackett If you didn’t catch it this week, a job board executive came out with how often you should be promoted early in your career. Basically, he said it should be every three years. Do you agree? Early-career...
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