Excerpted from an SHRM blog by John Hudson According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 1 in 5 adults in the US experiences mental illness in a given year. The statistics on mental illness are staggering. Most mental health services are...
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Excerpted from a JPSUPRA post Georgia has enacted a new law implementing a comprehensive program of background checks for Georgia long-term care facilities. The “Georgia Long-term Care Background Check Program” consolidates three existing...
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Compliance is the name of the game in today’s pre-employment background screening process. Kansas and North Carolina’s recent enactment of laws last week governing the use of criminal history in background screening for state government...
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Excerpted from a Journal Star post by Thomas Brunch A Downtown Peoria night club has instituted a new policy that will include running a one-time criminal background check on customers seeking to enter the club. Saddle Up, a country-themed club...
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NORTH CAROLINA Excerpted from wect.com, by WECT Staff Wilmington City Council unanimously approved an ordinance in favor of fair hiring practices at its meeting Tuesday night. Known as the Ban the Box resolution, it ensures people with criminal...
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Excerpted from a NBC News story by Martha C. White Near-full employment and changing attitudes about cannabis are prompting some companies to drop pre-employment drug screenings for marijuana, experts in human resources say. “It is happening,”...
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Excerpted from a Top Class Actions blog Frito-Lay Inc., a subsidiary of Pepsico Inc., has agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that the company violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by using consumer credit...
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Excerpted from cannoncourier.com blog Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) today applauded the passage of five bills that help protect Tennessee school children from educator sexual misconduct. The bills were filed after several...
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Excerpted from a Reason blog by Christina Britschgi In August 2017, Seattle made it illegal for landlords to decline potential tenants because of their criminal history, or even to perform a criminal background check on people looking to rent...
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Excerpted from Lexology.com report A district court in Ohio dismissed a plaintiff’s claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., because he could not show that the report caused him an injury or that the background...
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Excerpted from orlandosentinel.com, by Annie Martin and Leslie Postal Shanqual Marshall-Gunn, banned from teaching in Florida public schools because of a Medicaid fraud conviction, was hired by a private school in Pine Hills a month after her...
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Excerpted from The Atlantic story by Rod McCullom A raft of sensitive new fingerprint-analysis techniques is proving to be a potentially powerful, and in some cases worrying, new avenue for extracting intimate personal information—including what...
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