Archive for June 2013
Employer's Guide: Drug screening for jobs
17.2 million drug abusers in the US, 12.9 million were employed either full or part time. In addition, 10 to 20% of workers who died on the job tested positive for alcohol or other drugs. And according to statistics on drug abuse by American workers, workplace drug and alcohol use costs U.S. businesses an estimated…
Read MoreCouple orders a tie, receives employee social security numbers instead
What the couple actually got in the mail should is a cause for concern for all Gap employees: the confidential files of about 20 former employees, including Social Security numbers and W4 tax forms. “We totally laughed,” Dreyfuss, 29, said on Friday from her home in Cambridge, Mass. She had misgivings about the package as…
Read MoreGet started with TWIC background checks
From merchant mariners to port facility employees, long shore workers to truck drivers, anyone requiring unescorted access to secure areas of maritime facilities and vessels regulated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act is required to go through this screening process. Each TWIC applicant undergoes a security threat assessment. This assessment considers convictions, arrest warrants, and…
Read MoreResearch shows employee theft on the rise
Jack L. Hayes International shows that 71,095 dishonest employees were apprehended in 2012, up 5.5 percent from 2011. In total, more than $50 million was recovered in those cases, up 7 percent from a year earlier. One clear solution to reducing this desperately high number? Pre-employment background checks. “The seriousness of retail theft is a much greater…
Read More$10 Public Court Record search fee defeated in California Legislature
trailer bill that would have severely limited press and public access to court documents has died in the California Legislature, after widespread editorial condemnation from the state’s newspapers. The defeated proposal was put forward by the Administrative Office of the Courts and would have resulted in a charge of $10 per file to look at…
Read MoreEEOC files lawsuits against BMW and Dollar General
Several employees who had worked at BMW’s plant for years as employees of a logistics services company lost their jobs as a result of BMW’s policy. Their employer, UTi Integrated Logistics, only reviewed criminal convictions for the previous seven years. But when UTi ended its contract with BMW, its employees at the facility had to…
Read MoreCMS revokes 14,000 Medicare provider licenses since ACA
data released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Over the last four years, the Obama administration has recovered over $14.9 billion in healthcare fraud judgments, settlements, and administrative impositions, including record recoveries in 2011 and 2012. Since the Affordable Care Act, CMS has revoked 14,663 providers and suppliers’ ability to bill in…
Read MoreACLU sues Obama administration officials in NSA phone surveillance case
Preliminary 2012 crime stats show violent crime on the rise
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) statistics for 2012 indicate that when compared to data for 2011, the number of violent crimes reported by law enforcement agencies around the country increased 1.2 percent during 2012, while the number of property crimes decreased 0.8 percent. The final UCR statistics—submitted by approximately 18,000 local, state, campus, tribal, and federal…
Read MoreDelaware lawmakers look to limit criminal background checks
criminal background and credit history checks in the early stages of the application process. House Bill No. 167, introduced last week, would amend Delaware’s employment code to prevent any employer from inquiring into an applicant’s criminal and credit records until it has tendered a conditional offer of employment, and would exclude consideration of felony convictions…
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