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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Excerpted from a Constangy Brooks Smith & Prophete LLP blog by Robin Shea Know where your rights as an employer begin and end. A federal judge refused this week to dismiss a “cyber privacy” lawsuit, providing some good lessons...
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Excerpted from a Cleveland.com blog by Courtney Astolfi and Adam Ferrise Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s administration fired a recently hired manager in the Human Resources Department on Thursday after cleveland.com asked about her...
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If you have more than 100 employees at your company, recent developments will require you to report their pay data to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On March 4, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...
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Excerpted from an Shumaker Loop & Kendrick blog by Erin Smith Aebel and Amy Maguire On December 12, 2018, President Trump signed the Farm Bill removing hemp from the list of controlled substances and making it federally legal to grow and...
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Excerpted from an SHRM blog by Jenni Stone Need some tips for writing a great online job board advertisement? Before you begin writing your company’s recruitment advertisement, first consider how much money is available for recruitment and the...
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Excerpted from a KATU-2 TV story by Joe Douglass At public schools, teachers and other staff members must undergo criminal background checks. But that’s not the case for private schools and academies in Oregon. After a piano teacher was...
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Excerpted from The Morning Call story by Anthony Salamone Energy supplier Vista Energy Marketing faces a record fine for hiring door-to-door salespeople without criminal background checks in a case stemming from a Bucks County rape in...
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Excerpted from a Katz Marshall & Banks LLP blog by Matthew LaGarde The Fourth Circuit issued an important decision in February, holding that spreading rumors a female subordinate slept with a male superior to obtain promotions could...
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Excerpted from a Stars and Stripes story by Dan Lamothe A Pentagon program designed to screen potential recruits with foreign ties, including green-card holders and some U.S. citizens, has prompted questions from military officials about whether...
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Excerpted from a Reuters blog by Pete Schroeder The nation’s major credit reporting agencies faced renewed scrutiny from Congress last week, as lawmakers consider legislation overhauling the industry. Top executives from the three major credit...
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Excerpted from a Fasken blog by Gesta Abols and Matthew Downer If the Hillary Clinton email scandal wasn’t a clear enough lesson that one should not conduct official work using personal electronic communication tools (be it email or texts)...
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