Residential Care Workers Slip Through Background Checks
With an economy in the downturn, eveyrone is trying to cut corners. But sometimes when you cut corners the few bucks you save up front may result in a series of consequences, not the least of them...
View ArticleBackground Checks to Weed Out Workplace Bullies
I was reading a recent article about how WorkSafe in Australia will be going to more than 40,000 employers to educated their employees on workplace violence and workplace bullies. It is a pretty...
View ArticleBackground Checks Could Thwart Employee Theft
Employees will steal from you. This is no secret. Some employees will steal the small stuff like pens and paper. Others will steal the more important things, like proprietary information and...
View ArticleDrug Tests for Older Employees
All right, so this is really tongue in cheek. Well, sort of. Having recently read an article on Yahoo News, entitled Marijuana Use By Seniors Goes Up As Boomers Age, I couldn’t help but wonder what...
View ArticleEmployer Gets Ten Year Prison Sentence for Hiring Undocumented Workers
We have been warning employers about hiring undocumented workers for a couple of years now. Hiring workers you may suspect as being illegal or undocumented, choose your own preferential language, can...
View ArticleFollow Up On Credit Background Checks
There is an ongoing controversy in several states about whether or not employers should run credit reports s part of the background checks they use in their preemployment screening programs. I have...
View ArticleWhen the Background Check Doesn’t Do Its Job
There are background checks, and then there are background checks. Not all background checks are created equal. There are different levels of background screening where some searches are far more...
View ArticleAre Gun Permits the New Employment Background Check?
Some background checking and employment news is a lot more interesting than others. The Post-Tribune, which supports the greater Chicago area, reported that the Portage, Indiana Police Chief believed...
View ArticleEmployee Theft and the Need to Shop for Shoes
Sometimes background checks will filter out the potential red flag employment candidates, and sometimes an employee with a clean record will decide to great creative once they have a job they feel they...
View ArticleChanges in Oregon Sex Offender Background Checks
Background Checks involving the sex offender registry can also be more complex that it first appears. In some states a young man over eighteen have consensual sex with his girlfriend, who is, say,...
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