Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn With the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimating that 164 million people will plan to shop from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, the start of the holiday season can be “a bonanza for cyber criminals,” according to a report from CNBC Make It that offers the following tips…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Better Business Bureau (BBB) – a leader in advancing marketplace trust – is offering tips for avoiding job scams during the holiday season from scammers trying to take advantage of job seekers looking for work from retailers and shippers that hire seasonal workers to fulfill the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reminding users of the E-Verify employment eligibility verification system that they will purge historical E-Verify records on January 2, 2020, to reduce security and privacy risks associated with government retention of personally identifiable information (PII). As a result, E-Verify…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 18, 2019, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) – which advances opportunity in the workplace by enforcing the federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination – announced that a major retail chain had agreed to pay $6 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed by the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 15, 2019, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the agency enforcing federal consumer financial laws – issued an interpretive rule clarifying screening and training requirements for financial institutions which employ loan originators with temporary authority that will be effective on November 24, 2019. The…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Tom Ahearn Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) – a leading global background check firm – has been named to the 2019 HRO Today Magazine’s Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings for Pre-Employment Screening, ranking third on the lists of Overall Enterprise Leaders and Enterprise Quality of Service Leaders, and in the…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On November 14, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted to Congress the first Attorney General’s Semiannual Report on the Fix NICS Act as required by the Fix NICS Act passed in March 2018 that found the government had made some improvements to the sharing…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn With the vast majority of employers in the United States conducting some type of background check on job applicants, these applicants undergoing background checks to find work need to know that they are granted many important rights during this process under a federal law called the Fair…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of global background check provider Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), will present a live webinar titled “The Legal Use of Social Media, Credit Reports, Driving Records, and International Screening in Hiring” produced by Aurora Training Advantage on Tuesday, December…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In October of 2019, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) – an administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) responsible for regulating and providing safety oversight of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) – opened registration for the Congressionally-mandated FMCSA Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Drug and Alcohol…
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