Businesses have always looked to improve safety and reduce risk around their workplace. Indeed, ensuring safe facilities for both employees and customers … Read more
Continuous Monitoring Is the Latest Step In the Evolution of Background Screens
Insider threat is a challenge facing organizations across the United States. For example: Employee theft accounted for one-third of the $46.8 billion of … Read more
Continuous Employee Background Checks May Now Be Required
What if one of your employees was arrested on an assault weapons threat, but you were unaware because you only check backgrounds at time of hire? How would … Read more
How Marijuana Legalization Impacts Employers
Marijuana legalization is here. There’s just no other way to look at it. In 1999, only five states had legalized medical marijuana. Today that number … Read more
Hiring Ralph Northam: How Much of a Candidate’s Past Is Relevant?
The story of Ralph Northam — the Governor of Virginia — is familiar to most. News of a picture in his yearbook from 1984 resulted in calls for … Read more
How GDPR Affects Background Checking
Anyone who has visited a website since May 2018 will have undoubtedly noticed a pop-up window, asking you to accept cookies and a range of privacy … Read more
If You Do Background Checks, Check This Out
I don’t blog much about the Fair Credit Reporting Act. For those of you who aren’t familiar with FCRA, I suggest that you call an employment lawyer. Like … Read more
Avoid Background Check Class Actions With Arbitration Agreements
Companies are increasingly faced with class actions for alleged violations of one of the “big three” —the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Fair … Read more
For Want of a Background Check, the Romance Was Toxic
Note: The following story about Robbie Romance is fictitious, told to illustrate the potential problems caused by a rush to hire and the lack of any … Read more
Do You Google Every Candidate You Screen? A Cautionary Tale
The Assignment: Find a site director for a 250+ employee pharmaceutical contract manufacturing site in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, area. The … Read more