http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress Employment Screening Resources Blog Newsletter and Legal Update Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:25:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national employment screening firm announced today the release of a web site focused on providing quick and easy access to legally comliant essential background checks to small and medium businesses.  The service is available at: http://www.esrcheckdirect.com/  The new service, called ESRDirect, provides small and medium ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1395/employment-screening-resources-esr-releases-new-services-for-background-checks-for-small-and-medium-businesses The Employment Screening Resources (ESR) online course for “safe hiring” has been approved for recertification credits by the HR Certification Institute (HRCI) for 2010.  The internationally recognized certifying body for the Human Resources profession, HRCI has awarded more than 116,000 credentials in more than 70 countries in the field of human ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1391/employment-screening-resources-safe-hiring-online-course-approved-for-recertification-credits-by-hrci A federal District Court decision issued in August of 2009 in the Western District of Arkansas contains a valuable lesson for a consumer that believes that a background check was inaccurate. In that case, a Court held it was the consumer’s own behavior after the background check that caused the ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1387/lesson-on-how-a-consumer-should-not-react-to-an-inaccurate-background-check Employment Screening Resources (ESR)  is now providing background checks to members of the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), the second largest Human Resources Association in the country, as an added member benefit to NCHRA members.   Employment Screening Resources is  a leading national employment screening background checking firm located in ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1379/employment-screening-resources-to-provide-background-checks-as-a-member-benefit-for-nchra-members A research company has found that E-Verify – the employment eligibility verification system that the U. S. government would like employers to use to help control illegal immigration – has failed to catch over half of the number of illegal workers it checks. According to Westat, a research company evaluating the ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1375/report-finds-e-verify-fails-to-catch-over-half-of-illegal-workers-committing-identity-theft-and-fraud Oregon may be following Hawaii and Washington as states placing limits on the use of credit repots for employment purposes when the Oregon legislature passed Senate Bill 1045 and sent it  to the governor on February 22, 2010. The bill would prevent employers from utilizing credit reports in employment including hiring, ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1369/proposed-credit-report-law-in-oregon-would-limit-employment-screening-background-checks Employment Screening Resources (ESR), a leading national employment screening firm, announced completion of its integration with Taleo Business Edition™. This new integration provides a simplified, paperless technology solution to perform legally compliant employment background checks. Taleo Business Edition™ is the leading on-demand talent management solution for companies with up to 5,000 ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1365/employment-screening-resources-and-taleo-business-edition-join-forces-for-integrated-background-screening From the mailbox:  Does Minnesota have any laws that prevent an employer from obtaining or using criminal records?  Answer:  A number of states have very specific state rules about obtaining and using criminal records.  Employment Screening Resources  (ESR) maintains it’s own proprietary 50 state guide that is available to ESR clients.  Minnesota passed ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1346/minnesota-statue-gives-employers-some-protection-in-hiring-workers-with-past-criminal-record An article in MSNBC examining the use of credit reports and employment quoted Employment Screening Resources President Lester Rosen on how credit reports are used in screening.   The article concerned the current controversy over the use of credit reports and the suggestion that in a recession, that credit reports can harm ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1336/employment-screening-resources-quoted-in-article-on-msnbc-on-credit-reports In a recent state court case that concerned a fact pattern familiar to background screening specialist, a local office of a national staffing firm supplied an employer with a bookkeeper that turned out to have criminal record for felony fraud and who misrepresented her educational background  The worker embezzled $138,350.   ... http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/1332/staffing-firm-supplies-embezzler-with-felony-fraud-conviction-but-not-liable-to-employer