background screening
When background checks go wrong
a done deal – but then a routine background check gone awry surprised the company and Jackson with a detail even he didn’t know: his name appeared on national list of registered sex offenders. Jackson, 27, alleges in a suit filed in U.S. district court last week that the consumer reporting agency that ran his…
Read MoreTech giant loses age discrimination case
$3 million to several hundred former employees who accused the company of age discrimination, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Monday. The EEOC sued 3M (MMM) in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on behalf of a class of former employees who said the company laid off hundreds of workers over the age of…
Read MoreHow to hire an employment verification service
employment verification and wondered what it really is, where you can obtain this verification from and what the process is for doing so. The answer to all three questions? An employment verification service. An employment verification service is a company that can provide employers with verification on their employees – whether these employees are long-standing,…
Read MoreCPS launches daycare background screening website
log in and check out the centers in every city across the state. There is also information on any inspections done at the particular center and if they were given any citations. You can even read the reports done by the inspector. CPS regional spokesman John Lennan adds its important to go tour the facility…
Read MoreApplicant background check – what you need to know
education verification for a cashier job at the movie theater, but a criminal check and even employment verification will be essential for a police job where the applicant will have access to a firearm. Remember to be careful prying too deeply in the applicant’s recorded history especially with regard to applicant consent, so be aware…
Read MoreTrucker background screening program sees results
trucker background checks, it seems that we are indeed seeing some positive results from a program launched last year by The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Agency (FMCSA). Since May 2010, 380,000 pre-employment driver safety record checks have been conducted during the first year of this new, secure online search program. [caption id=”attachment_454″ align=”aligncenter” width=”300″ caption=”The…
Read MoreIncident reinforces need for trucker background checks
background checks and drug screening should play in the trucking industry. John Davis Trucking Co. is under scrutiny for a crash with an Amtrak train that left at least six dead. Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham told the AP that five passengers who were on the train’s manifest of more than 200 people remained unaccounted for…
Read MoreBackground screening for ice-cream vendors: a step too far?
Allentown, PA, has put forward a bill that would require ice-cream vendors to obtain a license – part of which would involve a background check. With background screening becoming an increasingly important social issue in 2011, such a proposal begs the question from some quarters – how far is too far? With students filing lawsuits…
Read MoreBackground screening failure at nursing homes
A report from the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that 92% of all nursing homes employ at least one worker with a criminal conviction. In total, ex-cons make up about 5% of nursing home workers in the country, the IG estimated after checking with a random sample of…
Read MoreErrors in background checks: how to avoid them
While not a common occurrence, it is certainly not unheard of for errors in the background checks process to result in unfair consequences for innocent individuals. There was the recent case of mistaken identity, where John Shelby is filing a lawsuit for being mistaken for a criminal who used the same alias and therefore losing…
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