Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of leading global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar entitled “Avoiding Illegal Pre-Employment Screening Practices: Update on Background Checks, Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Salary Secrecy Law” on Friday, July…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn 7-Eleven Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the company allegedly violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by failing to provide a “standalone” notice of background checks to approximately 60,000 job applicants, according to a report…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Background screening technology innovations “are improving speed, trust, transparency, and ultimately, the candidate experience” to attract “record numbers of millennials and Generation Z job candidates entering the workforce,” according to experts interviewed for an article in the June 2019 edition of HRO Today Magazine. In the article…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Pri Murphy, a National Account Executive for leading global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), has completed her term as President of the Board of Directors for the Professional Association of Sonoma County (PASCO), one of the largest professional Human Resources (HR) organizations in Northern California. She…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of leading global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will speak at the 2019 SEARCH Symposium on Justice Information Technology, Policy & Research taking place from July 23rd to July 24th, 2019. Rosen will be one…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employers have paid out $174 million over the past decade to settle class action lawsuits that claim they violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that governs the use of background checks on job applicants, according to a blog examining a compilation of court records assembled…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) – a non-profit trade association representing the interests of background screening companies – and leading human resources (HR) social networking website HR.com have released the results of their third annual survey of “How Human Resources Professionals View and Use…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 14, 2019, the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska ruled in the case of John Doe v. State of Alaska, Department of Public Safety that a state law requiring the registry of all sex offenders was unconstitutional because it violates rights to due process…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On June 12, 2019, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) introduced a bill called the Permanent E-Verify Act that will make the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program permanent by removing the termination provision that requires Congress to repeatedly act to extend the program, according to a press release…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Shannon Durst, a National Account Executive for California-based global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a session at the 2019 San Francisco HR Star Conference that will take place on Wednesday, July 10, 2019, from 8:15 AM to 4:45 PM, at the South…
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