Excerpted from a Huffington Post story by Dominique Mosbergen At many workplaces across the country, employees are required to submit to random drug screenings. And now, one Republican lawmaker wants members of Congress to be mandated to do the...
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GroupOne Background Screening will be hosting booth #218 during the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration’s (ASHHRA) 54th Annual Conference and Exposition, September 15-18 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in...
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Excerpted from a Daily News Journal story by Mariah Timms All Mai Hamric wanted was to apply for a promotion. The Murfreesboro-native artist was employed by the City’s Parks and Recreation Department for more than two years until an...
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Excerpted from an 11ABC News story by Randall Yip and Michael Finney It’s fairly well known that Proposition 64 made recreational marijuana use legal in California, but there’s one aspect of the law many may not know. Employers can...
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GroupOne Background Screening will be hosting a booth during the HR in Indian Country Conference, August 23-24 at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. The HR in Indian Country Conference confronts the unique challenges and opportunities...
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Excerpted from a KMIRNBC story by Daytona Everett The California Supreme Court has upheld a state law that requires employers to obtain workers’ permission before hiring a company to check their backgrounds. The court in a unanimous ruling on...
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Excerpted from a Women’s Health story by Korin Miller Even if you’ve never touched an illicit drug, it’s easy for the paranoid part of your brain to worry that somehow, some way, something is going to show up on a drug test. Unfortunately...
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GroupOne Background Screening will be hosting Booth #21 during the Austin Human Resource Management Association (AHRMA) Annual Conference, July 26-27 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Austin, Texas. This year’s AHRMA Conference is sold out, though a...
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Excerpted from a Boston Globe article by Katie Johnston For Massachusetts employers, marijuana is a potential minefield. The drug is about to become more widely available as recreational sales start next month, yet many companies have no plans to...
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Excerpted from an Quest Diagnostics post Driven by increases in cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, drug use by the American workforce remains at its highest rate in more than a decade, according to a new analysis released today by Quest...
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Excerpted from a Business Wire story The world’s first portable fingerprint-based drug test – which works by analysing sweat from a fingerprint to determine if someone has recently used cocaine, opiates, amphetamines or cannabis – will bring new...
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Excerpted from Business Insider article by Louise Esola Employers across the United States are ordering fewer tests for marijuana in pre-hire drug screens even as the number of positive drug tests is on the rise — a trend that is raising concerns...
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