pre-employment background checks
Companies start signing on to the Fair Chance Business Pledge
Fair Chance Business Pledge. The 19 initial signatories include major companies such as American Airlines, Busboys and Poets, The Coca-Cola Company, Facebook, Georgia Pacific, Google, Greyston Bakery, The Hershey Company, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, Koch Industries, Libra Group, PepsiCo, Prudential, Starbucks, Uber, Under Amour/Plank Industries, Unilever and Xerox. The pledge encourages signatories…
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Legislation introduced to ban credit employment checks in Massachusetts
filed an ordinance that would ban employer use of credit checks, including preventing employers from asking applicants to grant permission to perform such a check. Massachusetts has long banned the box for employers – and now looks to do the same for credit checks. “We need to be eliminating all barriers to employment to ensure people…
Read MoreUber to pay $10 million over driver background checks
ABC 7 News. The lawsuit, filed in 2014, said that Uber falsely claimed its criminal screening of would-be drivers was the most comprehensive available. San Francisco and Los Angeles prosecutors sued, saying Uber’s background checks were inferior to what taxi drivers undergo because they did not include fingerprint checks for past convictions. According to a settlement…
Read MoreStudy: Bans on employment credit checks leads to higher unemployment
In the past decade, most states have banned or have considered banning the use of credit checks in hiring decisions. Using Equifax data on employer credit checks, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax, and the LEHD Origin-Destination Employment data, Harvard Kennedy School showed that these bans increased employment of residents in…
Read MoreAssessing your background screening program? Keep these key practices in mind.
background screening programs, here are a few key practices to keep in mind: Involving all stakeholders from the start Changes to your screening program will impact everyone, so it’s important to be inclusive in your assessment. You don’t need to involve every stakeholder, every step of the way, but representatives from human resources, legal / compliance,…
Read MoreDecember 2015 employment: US economy ended year in strong position
‘The Employment Situation’ news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the country finished 2015 well, adding 292,000 jobs in December. The BLS report found that the number of unemployed people was unchanged in December 2015 – at 7.9 million, and the unemployment rate still stands at 5%. Employment rose in several industries, including professional…
Read MoreEmployment pre-screening to keep your business protected
90 percent of companies now implement employment pre-screening. The fact that 10% of all background checks have at least one serious red flag, suggests that organizations which do implement an employment screening program are right to do so! Nonetheless, employment screening is a complex industry. It’s tough to understand as a newcomer. Any employer that…
Read MoreMYB applicant tracking system now integrated with 24 different CRM systems
Get connected to Mind Your Business to learn more about how to simplify and streamline the background screening process in your business. (Full list of CRM integrated systems: ADP Virtual Edge, Applicant Harbor, Peopleclick Authoria, HRsmart, iCIMS, Job Science, My Staffing Pro, PC Recruiter, Healthcare Source Position Manager, ERC Selectech, SilkRoad Open Hire, Smart…
Read MoreAmazon violates Federal Law with employee background checks
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). When he applied for a job with Amazon as a “puller” at one of the online retailer’s distribution centers in November 2013, Williams also filled out a form giving SMX the authority “to obtain his consumer report for employment purposes.” That form stated that if anything is found in the…
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