Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of leading global background check firm Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar entitled “Illegal Pre-Employment Screening Practices: Update on Ban-the-Box, Salary History Inquiries, and Background Checks” on Thursday, September 20, 2018, from 1:30 p.m. to…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn HR Tech Alliances – the HR Tech industry’s portal solution for finding and managing partnerships and alliances – has scheduled a Vegas Collaboration Zone vendor-to-vendor (V2V) networking event in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 10 and/or 11, 2018.
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 28, 2018, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – a federal agency under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that enforces laws governing border control – arrested 160 workers on federal immigration violations for unlawfully working in the United States…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A class action lawsuit filed in a Florida court claims that fast food giant McDonald’s allegedly violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when it conducted background checks on job applicants by failing to obtain proper authorization and disclosure in violation of the FCRA, according to a…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 23, 2018, Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) introduced legislation – S.3386, The E-Verify System Act of 2018 – that would require all employers to use E-Verify to ensure employees are authorized to work in the U.S. legally, according to a press release on Senator McCaskill’s…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 20, 2018, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) – an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system – issued Modifications to the Statement of Policy (SOP) for Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn An “undocumented immigrant” accused of murdering a 20-year-old college student in Iowa gave his employer false information to pass a government background check that did not use the federal E-Verify employment eligibility verification system in order to get a job, according to a report from the Des…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 17, 2018, the U.S. Youth Soccer Association and its Northern California affiliate agreed to pay $8.2 million to settle a lawsuit over their failure to properly run background checks on a coach who was later convicted of sexually abusing a 13-year-old player, according to a…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On August 16, 2018, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the City of Chicago was preventing neighborhood violence by investing $10.4 million in youth mentoring programs coming from legal settlements with Uber, Lyft, and Via over allegations they performed background checks that were not consistent with standards set by…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Supreme Court of California has reviewed a case to resolve a conflict in the Courts of Appeal over whether the Investigative Consumer Reporting Agencies Act (ICRAA) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to employment background checks because it overlaps with the Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (CCRAA).…
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