pre-employment background checks
Why employers should drug test job applicants
can cost a business a lot of money. As already mentioned, accidents in the workplace may result in the company being sued by employees, and worker’s compensation will need to be paid out for any injured employee. A loss in employee productivity due to injury or distraction on the job can cause losses in company…
Read MoreFingerprint background checks: it’s about standards and safety.
Some forms of background checks, like the National Criminal Search, are par for the course for most employers. But fingerprint background checks aren’t necessarily as common as you’d think. Employers and job applicants alike have questions about fingerprinting as part of the background check process. For starters, why do some employers check fingerprints when others…
Read MoreThree reasons to perform employment reference checks
1) You want to ensure the applicant was honest. Resume fraud is a big problem, and it happens on all levels — from entry level to upper management. By contacting applicants’ references, you can ensure they did not embellish past job duties or fabricate educational experience. 2) You want to ensure they have the right…
Read MoreACLU petitions for ‘ban the box’ executive action for federal jobs
has begun petitioning the government to stop including questions about applicants’ criminal records on federal job applications. Recently, President Obama spoke at the NAACP’s annual conference, where he asked Congress to pass federal “ban the box” laws and prevent criminal background checks from being conducted until later in the employment process. According to the ACLU…
Read MoreMYB awarded EEO Contracts – We Mind their Business so they don’t have to!
Hendersonville, NC, May 20, 2015 — Last month, Mind Your Business Inc., (MYB), was awarded two new contracts to conduct Administrative Management Inquiries for Federal Government Agencies, and a contract to write Final Agency Decisions for a federal government agency. Headquartered in Hendersonville, N.C., MYB also has an office in Washington, D.C., covering the entire…
Read MoreNew York City passes pre-employment credit-check ban
strictest pre-employment credit checking law in the country. In a 47-3 vote, the New York City Council passed a bill preventing employers in the city from running credit checks on job applicants. “Millions of Americans who have bad credit would also be great employees,” said Brad Lander, who sponsored the bill. “What they need to…
Read MoreVermont becomes latest state to ban the box
hiring policy that removes questions about criminal records from the first part of job applications for state employment. Agencies will continue to conduct background checks, but only after an applicant has otherwise been found qualified for the position. The policy will prevent applicants from being immediately screened out of state jobs because of a criminal…
Read MoreSocial media background checks prevalent, but come with pitfalls
Gone are the days when employers had to wait for background check results to arrive in order to dig up any dirt on a job applicant; while savvy employers still conduct all kinds of background checks on their potential employees, you’d be hard-pressed to find an employer that doesn’t review an applicant’s social media profiles,…
Read MoreScreening required for airport passengers, why not personnel?
Air travel in the U.S. requires an extensive passenger screening process; between pat-downs and X-ray machines, random hand-swabbing and required removal of belts and shoes, you’d expect the airport to be an incredibly secure place. However, in light of a Delta Airlines employee who was charged with smuggling guns onto planes in Atlanta, there has…
Read MoreGeorgia and Virginia consider ban-the-box legislation
Gov. Nathan Deal signed an Executive Order to remove criminal history questions from job applications in the state of Georgia. This move makes Georgia the fourteenth state in the U.S. to pass statewide ban-the-box legislation. (Both the city of Atlanta and Fulton County already had ban-the-box policies in place.) “[Ban-the-box] policies allow returning citizens an…
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