social media background checks
Background check time arrived for social media
social media background checks in the past, and many companies have been performing them for quite some time, social media background checks seem to have crossed that line from ‘sporadic’ to ‘normality’. Back in 2009, forty-five percent of employers reported in a CareerBuilder survey that they use social networking sites to screen potential employees. Now, that…
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Tech 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 MoreFTC says yes to Facebook background checks
U.S. Federal Trade Commission has given legal permission to a company to archive 7 years of Facebook posts as part of their background checking service. While this obviously holds significance for this specific business, the larger issue spreads across the pre-employment background screening industry as a whole. Where should the line be drawn between personal…
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