Excerpted by NYTimes by Michael Gold The bill passed by the New York City Council was the latest in a series of steps to ease cannabis restrictions as efforts to legalize marijuana have stalled. Most employers in New York City would no longer be...
Read MoreFew employers use rolling background checks
Excerpted from HR Dive By Valerie Bolden-Barrett Dive Brief: • While some employers choose to screen employees continuously, checking that nothing has changed since they hired workers, their numbers remain small. Just 4% of 6,500 HR professionals...
Read MoreOn the road – GroupOne hosting booth at TORCH Conference!
GroupOne Background Screening is headed to downtown Dallas today for the The Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals (TORCH) Annual Conference & Trade Show, April 10-12 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Themed “Rural Matters,” the...
Read MoreLouisiana lawmaker aims to require background checks for all youth coaches
Excerpted from WVUE by KNOE 8 News NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A Louisiana lawmaker is hoping to push a bill through the state legislature to expand background checks on adults working with children. State Representative Reid Falconer...
Read MoreAge discrimination claims limited for job applicants
Excerpted from Lexology By Akerman LLP – Megan M. Kokontis A second federal appellate circuit has ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (the ADEA) does not apply to job applicants’ claims that a policy or practice has a...
Read MoreDigital addictions in the workplace
Excerpted from Lexology Blog By Fisher Phillips Cell phones. Video games. YouTube. TV. iPads. Kindles. Online Gaming. Netflix. Hulu. Amazon Prime. Stream, click, stream, repeat. As the years go on, so too does the list of things to which people...
Read MoreGroupOne participates in Arkansas hunger campaign
GroupOne Background Screening’s David Graves slipped on the hairnet and plastic gloves this morning to participate in the Fearless Food Fight, a campaign to fight hunger sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas. In all, 30-plus volunteers...
Read MoreUber should improve its background check system for drivers
Excerpted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Courtney Linder Michael Sorg, a part-time ride-hailing driver, recalls both of his background checks with Lyft and Uber just over two years ago. They couldn’t have been more different. Not far from his home...
Read MoreOn the road – GroupOne hosting booth at Arkansas Conference!
GroupOne Background Screening will be traveling to Hot Springs, Arkansas for the SHRM HR Conference and Expo, April 3-5 at the Hot Springs Convention Center. The three-day summit will be highlighted by over 100 booths and more than 3,000...
Read More‘Ban the Box’ update to come from New Orleans officials
Excerpted from NOLA blog by Beau Evans, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune New Orleans officials are poised to give an update on implementation of a new “ban the box” measure approved last year that bars the city from running criminal background...
Read MoreOn the road – GroupOne hosting booth at today’s Frisco Summit!
GroupOne Background Screening is hanging in Frisco, Texas today during the Frisco HR Summit at the Frisco Chamber of Commerce. The four-hour summit will feature presentations and a panel discussion by local HR experts. Speakers will include Traci...
Read MoreWhat is today’s “hot topics” in background screening?
Blog by Danilio Davila, Executive Director, GroupOne Background Screening I was recently asked to put together some “hot topics” to consider when evaluating the risks of sharing consumer/background reports among employers in their respective...
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