Being a background screening company we often only focus on the EEOC’s guidance on criminal records. It’s something that directly concerns our business, our clients and our reports but the EEOC plays a much bigger role in the employment world. For today’s post I am...
By law, a company is a “consumer reporting agency” if it assembles and evaluates consumer report information and provides those reports to third parties, for monetary purposes. Therefore, any business that uses consumer reports for employment purposes has to comply...
In this post, we learned who Edward Snowden is, what he is accused of, an inkling of how he pulled it off, where he is supposedly living, and why he says he blew the whistle on questionable spying practices by the National Security Agency.The...
The next form of workplace discrimination: the technologically challenged… you may laugh reading this sentence but it’s actually a reality. How? Aren’t computer skills necessary for certain positions? It’s not discrimination if applicants can’t perform the job...
Look closely at this picture. Notice anything, or more accurately, anyone familiar?In a not-so-surprising move, Edward Snowden appeared via satellite robot (middle and far right screen) from somewhere in Russia at yesterday’s 2014 TED conference in Vancouver, reports...
Pre-employment testing – we have all been subjected to it at one point or another. Whether it was proving you could add and subject for that cashiers job you got at 16 or that personality test you took when you applied to be a sales person after college. Maybe...
