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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Excerpted from CBS News By Kate Gibson •After Walmart began operating a warehouse that an outside company had run, it did background checks on the facility’s workforce. •The result was 100 to 200 African American workers with past criminal...
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Excerpted from WFMY News2 By CBS News Rover and Wag advertise “rigorous screening” and “background checks,” CBS News says. Wag and Rover nicknamed the “Uber for dogs” and “dog bnb,” offer on-demand...
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Excerpted from THE SHRM Blog By Eva Del Rio, SPHR One of our employees, who has been a steady, solid performer the last two years, suddenly erupted in anger at one of our clients during a company event. Granted, the client is difficult, and the...
Read More Excerpted from SJ-R By Peter Hancock The Illinois House on Friday rejected a bill that would have blocked public colleges and universities from asking about a prospective student’s criminal history as part of the application. The so-called...
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Excerpted from The Gainesville Sun By Daniel Smithson and Sarah Nelson Alachua County Public Schools on Tuesday fired 34-year-old paraprofessional Chad Purdy, who in 2012 confessed to detectives he was obsessed with a 12-year-old girl. The school...
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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 ABA Journal By Jason Tashea The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would require federal job applicants to divulge whether they’ve been through criminal diversion programs meant to avoid conviction. The U.S. Office of...
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Excerpted from Fox News By Katherine Lam A Florida man scored a new job in January, but he ended up behind bars two months later in connection with a 1998 cold case murder – thanks to his successful application. Todd Barket, 51, was...
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GroupOne Background Screening is headed to the Pacific Northwest for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) Spring Conference, April 14-16 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The Spring...
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